Who actually likes modern art? you see the type in art galleries looking at a coathanger as if its mona lisa?

Question

They''re just trying to be trendy and "cool"
Modern art is shite.
isnt it? isnt it? isnt it?

Answer 1

It's a load of fecking shine a light
Go get a feckin brush and paint something worth looking at.
feckin aprons and half a feckin cow in a glass box, a row of feckin bricks and a f*rt in a plastic bag.
Shite! Yes yes feckin yes!

Answer 2

First of all, modern art finished in the 1950s/1960s. You're talking about contemporary art.

Secondly, it's no longer always about the finished product (what you see in the exhibition space), it's often about the process of creating the work - in other words, what you're seeing is not necessarily the total sum of what you're getting.

Mind you, the likes of Treacy Emin have shown some neck and taken this, parodied it (as in 'Bed', google it if you don't know what I'm on about), and made an obscene amount of money from it. It's not the 'art' that earned her the cash, it's the neck. But then she wouldn't be the first - Marcel Duchamps got a urinal and called it 'Fountain' - a play on reality - it became known as using a 'Found Object'. Only Marcel Duchamps was actually good ...

Answer 3

Do you like the Mona Lisa? That was once classified as modern art, some people liked it and a lot did not. It's a small painting and people thought 'real' art should be big and religious in content.

Modern art is a way of pushing the boundaries, I agree some of it looks terrible - to me -, that's the point, Andy Warhole said (when people said his art was rubbish) any reaction is a good reaction.

The fact that we are discussing it now and giving mixed opinions proves his point.

You, me and everyone who has answered is thinking about modern art.

Answer 4

don't genralise so.. 'modern art' is a big broad stroke of the brush.

by some 'artists' at some times it can be tacky, offensive, low, egotistical...etc. all thats wrong with anything man made, be it building that premotes depression for the occupyer or pakaging for pez that is infuriating ly hard to open. but at its core modern art (or contempory art) struggles (or i believe should do) with some of the biggest questions.. you know..metaphisics what is it to know...what is perception...what is art itself...all that stuff.
you gotta look at it and decide what questions or statements the artist was proposing. or fak that off, and just do i like it? aethetics is viceral thing as well as mathmatical.

i think above all it should be orriginal and honest (that is the artists motive should be the work itself and not .will anyone get this?. or worst .....will anyone buy this?' caus its the act of creation that matters. not the skill employed. a builder can by very skilled and make a perfect wall from bricks, but its only art if the wall was part of a journey or thought process that the creator was going through.

just look at it as another way of communicating ideas. words are great and all, but they are after all part of a system that the individual thats using them didnt create. he just puts them together in hopefully new (though probally not) ways. and established artforms are equally ristrictive. so if you dont get it. it doesnt matter. just look. and decide what you want to get from it. and if your naturally inquizitve then look a bit further to what the artist was getting from it. or trying to get you you..

hope this helped

Answer 5

my sis and i had a similar discussion a while back...probably cause i paint and sketch part time.
She was telling me something along the lines of what you're saying more because i do impressionist and realist sort of art sometimes a bit of fantasy.
i think that a lot of celebrated artists today cannot really even draw, that which is true talent. (like u either have it or you dont) so they go to uni to study art but some of them never quite make it to string together a proper drawing.
some people have contacts and money to market what they call art, but then because they have money or influential friends / contacts, they pay people (advertising companies) to sensationalize their art by adding a bit of mystery, when in truth they probably did a painting with their bottoms. figuratively speaking. i dont envy these people, but i do think they take up useful space which would much benefit those with true talent, in a more useful way. in short, i think they give modern art a bad name. see some of my art at www.boundlessgallery.com (do an artist search for Dalene West) oh well, we all like different things dont we? have an arty weekend!!

Answer 6

Some is some isn't, it's all a matter of opinion. Most modern art is about the idea behind it, rather than previous forms of art where it was purely for aesthetic values. Find out about the artist and their ideas before you go and look at something, you'll probably enjoy it more.

Answer 7

It isn't art, it's just about making money and sounding clever and 'deep'. Art isn't about 'ideas', if I want ideas I go to a philosopher or a scientist not Tracy bleeding Emin. Alexei Sayle went to art college but he said he wasn't very succesful because as he put it: I was good at drawing animals and painting landscapes but not very good at standing in the shopping centre with a tea cosy on my head and 'confronting contemporary attitudes to...'.

Modern art, conceptual art - call it what you want is, as somebody once said - shite!

Answer 8

People who like extreme modern art as you decribe it are pretentious fashion victims who try to intellectualise mediocrity.

Alot of it is just plain offensive and an insult to less privileged but infinitely more talented artists trying to make a name for themselves.

There are however some forms of art (particularly on canvas) which you could only decribe as modern / contemporary which is excellent.

Answer 9

After the war, the CIA started buying the work of Jewish American 'Abstract Expressionists' to push the prices up thereby making them important national figures. They did this so the American attache could sidle up to the Soviet attache at embassy gigs and talk about how Rothko, Pollock and DeKonnig and how they were beginning to define the post war American ethos. Then, when he had an audience he could ask the Soviet attache about their Jewish artists who had been shipped off to the gulags and deliver the stinging rebuke 'just like the Nazis'.

Answer 10

I like to look at all art and make my mind up whether I like a piece or not rather than group things together, and I am neither trendy or cool.