Do you appreciate modern art?

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Random question this evening, do you get any pleasure from modern art?

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they like or enjoy it. To me, it just appears to be a pretentious load of bullcrap created without any real talent or craftsmanship and made purely out of randomness and abstraction with insane over analysis applied afterwards to give it some sort of meaning or thought process, when infact it most likely had none.

The figures tell a different story, though. The stuff sells. Even if it is just random splashes of paint on a canvas. I remember some fat art school grad on TV trying to flog a canvas with a few splashes on it for £4k. A hugely over-exaggerated analysis ensued about how she'd used different colours to represent different things. Lying through her teeth as far as I could tell and it looked horrendous.

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I can appreciate some modern art, a lot of it is quite nice to look at and can be very interesting.

I agree though some stuff is just garbage dressed up to be deep and meaningful.
 
Fenris said:
I can appreciate some modern art, a lot of it is quite nice to look at and can be very interesting.

I agree though some stuff is just garbage dressed up to be deep and meaningful.
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This to be fair. Depends what the actual piece of art is and what style.
 
I like a lot of modern art. I go into the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art quite often for a walk about. Some of it is utter pants but you do get some good stuff.
I'm also a big fan of pop art.
It's the same with anything, you get some good and some bad.
 
The range of art is vast.

There is some modern art that makes you stop and think, or stop and go "Woah! That's good!". It's just finding what you like in the sea of mundane.
 
It gives me some amusement making up an "insane over analysis applied afterwards to give it some sort of meaning or thought process" for random things as if I was trying to pass them off as art.

"Whose line is it anyway?" would hand various bits of useless tat to comedians and have them ad lib shopping channel patter for them. Things like a mug with a hole in it. It's a very similar process.
 
Yes. I've argued for this topic before on this forum.

Not really too interested in doing it again but yes, the answer is affirmative. I love modern art.
 
When you say art, I assume you mean visual art.

The best way of explaining such art is to think of it like music. Does it make it feel a certain way, or consider a certain thing? If it does, then it has succeeded in affecting you. If it doesn't or you don't like it, then it's not for you.

There is some crap modern art, there is some good modern art. Ultimately you just like what you like. For example, I like bright colours as they appear energetic, intense and possitive and it probably influences my dress sense, which is mostly bright.
 
I do appreciate art that has been created recently but usually not the stuff that's displayed in art galleries.

But then I think of art as anything from funky buildings to special effects in movies. Which it is no? ..

Most of the stuff that the Guardian columnists ***** over I couldn't care less for.
 
Appreciating modern art can be a whole mix of things. It might be the scale of it, meanings behind it or even its setting. Personally, I am more interested in how it makes me feel rather than some underlying theme.

To take a couple of popular artists... The Rothko room which was at the tate modern was pretty awesome for me. I couldn't put my finger on what I felt but I spent some time in there and it allowed me to think and reflect.

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(this image is a lot lighter than it was, it was quite a dark room)

Had I seen those works anywhere else I would have had a different feeling, or none at all.

Same goes for Anish Kapoor. I'm not so interested in his reasonings behind things, but can't help but feel overwhelmed when confronted by things like this.

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I just feel sorry for the thousands of people taking "Art Degree's" and watching them work at xyz for the rest of their lives in a job that has no link what so ever to art.
 
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