Do you appreciate modern art?

mordern art is utter crap...

when you look at modern art you dont think wow thats amazing i would never be able to create such beauty...

when you go look at some magnificent oil painting with brilliant detail all over you can be amazed at the amount of talent and time someone has put into making it. some of those oil paintings are massive aswell
 
Like almost anything there's good and bad examples of art created today. The label "modern art" does however have somewhat of a stigma attached to it and I'm less likely to go looking at something labelled thus than I am to simply go to an art gallery - although admittedly neither is a hugely regular occurrence for me.

"I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts." - Charles Rosin
 
this oil painting was made in 1434
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now if we zoom in on some of the portions of the painting...
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stunning detail... the mirror even shows the painting from the other angle how fantastic
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incredible...
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can you even fathom such a true peice of art beeing made in 1434? thats over 500 years ago , anyone who claims "art" has done anything than gone backwords is speaking the same poop they stick on a pedestal and call art
a turd or dead animal in a glass cabinet is not art....
 
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I keep an open mind about what I see and appreciate some it. There is some very good stuff and quite a lot ranging from the mediocre to downright rubbish. But that makes looking at it great fun because you never know what to expect next.
 
If water cooled PC's are classed as modern art then im in
All the other stuff is NOT for me

There is a peice of "so called" modern art at the park were i live i have NO IDEAR what the hell it is. It looks like a chunk of metal (will take a photo when i walk the dog later and post it here to see what you guys think of it.
 
DJMK4 said:
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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I feel the same way as you, modern art is standard but it grinds my gears that loads of students take it up , wasting our taxes on a subject that most will never use after university or college.
 
Al Vallario said:
What you mean to ask is: Do you appreciate contemporary art?

Contemporary ≠ Modern
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This tbh, I kind of consider modern art to be just after arts and crafts movement upto post modernism. It includes art deco, art nouveau, cubism etc. All of which I do appreciate yes :) contempory art has its place imho if someone has created it, then its art in a sense and if someone wants it then bonus I guess. The over analysis of it though, with people trying to insert meaning into something with no meaning is stupid.
 
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therutz said:
There is a peice of "so called" modern art at the park were i live i have NO IDEAR what the hell it is. It looks like a chunk of metal (will take a photo when i walk the dog later and post it here to see what you guys think of it.
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That is quite amusing, it looks like a rocket has crashed. Is it popular with dogs?
 
I'm a big fan of the true modernists (Rothko, Pollock, Kandinsky, Noguchi et al) but not so much of a fan of the Tracey Emin's or Damien Hirsts of this world.

arknor said:
when you look at modern art you dont think wow thats amazing i would never be able to create such beauty...
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But you would only be able to think that once you saw it. I dare say you would never have had the 'skill' to produce a piece of modern art unless you had already seen it. These artists were pioneers, pushing the boundaries of form, light and colour. Also, lets not forget that most of them were classically trained before they started experimenting to produce these pieces of 'utter crap'.

arknor said:
this oil painting was made in 1434...
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While I can certainly appreciate the talent and skill that Jan van Eyck possessed, I would rather have a Rothko on my wall than any Renaissance painting. There's no denying that to recreate a scene in that much detail takes a genius but it's far too traditional and literal for my tastes.

simulatorman said:
I keep an open mind about what I see and appreciate some it. There is some very good stuff and quite a lot ranging from the mediocre to downright rubbish. But that makes looking at it great fun because you never know what to expect next.
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I think this is the difficulty with it. I'm not going to deny that there is a lot of tosh around, there certainly is, but to tar all Modern Art with that brush is unfair and incorrect.
 
I loathe to use an Apple analogy and I apologise for doing so, but my problem with 'modern art', isn't the work people create (the Macbook pro, in this instance), its the 'academic' ***** who accompany it (fanboys :p). I generally care little for most of the work I've seen to date, though I can see why someone else would enjoy it. What I don't like is people deciding what is good modern art and what isn't. It's infuriating. Though I don't really like that in any form when talking about something completely subjective (fashion being another obvious example).
 
Biohazard said:
Modern art is terrible.
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yep.

if a child can do it i don't consider it art.
none of the famous bits of modern art couldn't have been thought up by anybody with a bit of imagination in a pub - and that means it isn't art.
the whole area is about a small no. of rich 'experts' deciding the value of crap art based on their opinions, and then buying and selling accordingly, its self perpetuating - i hate it and what it represents.
 
I'm struggling to understand which style we are talking about tbh, true modern art was approx 1890-1975 ish. whilst contemporary art started post war and shares aspects of modern art the talked about splashes on canvases and abstract metal sculpture mentioned in the thread are most definitely contemporary / post modern.
 
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I'm really fussy when it comes to art, but I do appreciate it. As for the whole splash in different colours, maybe not. Only way I could, is if I did it myself, heard some bad news and started pummeling it with a paint brush and see what comes out of it all, haha.
 
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If I pickled an animal it would not be art, Damien Hurst does it, it suddenly becomes worth a small fortune.

Tracey Emin, moves her bed to the Tate Modern and gets a nomination for the Tuner Prize.
 
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