I don’t get modern art. I dont understand how we went from beautiful paintings to a yellow pentagon with a black line through it being considered art.
This is from Burghley House near where I live. And it’s obviously taken a lot of thought, skill and talent to create.
This is from an art gallery I took my wife to yesterday. And as far as I can tell, it’s complete crap. If my kids handed this to me as their art homework I’d be having words with them.
Obviously I kept my mouth shut as the museum guides seemed to know exactly what I was thinking. And this was about my wife after all, it’s not about me. Happily over drinks later it turned out she thought the same but enjoyed watching me hum thoughtfully at each piece while failing to hide my utter contempt for what I was seeing.
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Any movement requires that people push its boundaries so that you can move into new ideas and do new things. The notion that not only did art peak in the 1500s, but that it should not have advanced past that point is obviously silly.
People are always making beautiful art that evokes classic styles or plays with modern styles that are accessible to the layman. You are never going to be without art you can enjoy.
At the same time, there are people who experiment, get bored with old ways of doing things, and push boundaries. That was literally what the Renaissance was about.
Also people were doing this kind of play with shape and colour rather than just painting pretty pictures back in the 1960s. It's hardly modern anymore, even if that's a contemporary piece.
