Way better than modern art
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Arthur Brain
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This is part of modern art...
How are you defining it?
How are you defining it?
Arthur Brain
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Arthur Brain
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There's loads of stuff in "modern art" that you might not like but hey, not everything has to be a Turner seascape...
My standard for art is similar. If I or a child or a chimpanzee could do it, it's not art,
Ummm.... Modern.
Arthur Brain
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Sometimes people just assume "modern art" is all about some indistinct squiggles and the like or that it doesn't fit in with their comfortable ideals of landscapes or whatever. Gets tiresome.
So, how about this?
This is a painting btw...
Is this just crap?
I don't consider this to be modern art. I don't care if it was created this morning.
Arthur Brain
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It doesn't matter what you "consider" it to be. This is photorealism and isn't part of the renaissance or baroque period of art any more than a Handel piece can be construed as being contemporary classical music in the present. Now you could argue that there is great artistic skill in the portraits of Holbein etc as there is with this but art isn't defined by your subjective parameters.
By the time most of us think something is "modern art"... it isn't.
Mostly, what most people think of as modern art (abstract experssionism) is really old...
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War IIart movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.
Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism. In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism
Mostly, what most people think of as modern art (abstract experssionism) is really old...
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War IIart movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.
Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism. In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism
I'd like it if my 3 year old did it, and I'd post it to the refrigerator to humor him, but it would be down by Sunday.
Arthur Brain
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Oh c'mon, at least a month before that...