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NDrLoR
2017 Apr 5, 8:58am
WWI
Traumatic historical events inspire art, probably none more graphically than in the First World War:
http://madefrom.com/history/world-war-one/painting/
Marcel Duchamp's 1917 "Fountain" in comment 45 was an early example of an artist's attempt to shock simply for the sake of shocking. This continues to the present day ad infinitum as one artist tries to outdo the former in transgressing boundaries. What is left to do after every religious, societal, traditional value has been transgressed and there's nothing left to shock the senses is pretty much where we've been for nearly four decades.
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Apr 5, 9:00am
"I didn't like it."
"That wasn't art."Who now is the pretentious one?
"I didn't like a movie, it sucked."
"You're PRETENTIOUS! Now watch this film of a fly crawling up somebody's leg by the reknowned Yoko Ono. She's a master of the form. If you are hon hon hon like me, you will deeply understand what the Crazy Lady from Japan who Chuck Berry ought to have given her ass a solid belting amazing, cutting edge artiste was communicating to wise, incredible people like myself."
At least the Beatles had enough taste to turn her mic off in future performances. "Whoops, technical problem."
In other words, it exists for the purpose of displaying the wealth and status of the buyer by being expensive for no other reason than the expense, itself. The expense and uniqueness represent exclusivity.
For me, it's to exclude the riff-raff by pretending that garbage is gold.
It's no accident Abstract Art arose at precisely the time where so many Americans were going to college on the GI Bill and beginning to get art appreciation/history classes. Abstract Art was utilized by many to turn those people off and keep them out of Bourgeois Spaces.
"Pah, Normal Rockwell, hon hon hon, the Common Clay's favorite. My blobs and scribbles, I will say they are effervescent, beyond the realm of comprehension of mon inferiors, hon hon hon."
You can't say something is something without defining at least some criteria.
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Apr 5, 9:08am
Pssst, speaking of "a child can do it", there's already Yuppies who exploit a four year old to slap colors on a canvas and have made 6 figures on it.
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Have a janitor, perferably from a third world country, largely uneducated and unfamiliar with Western Art, with a very low IQ, enter a room.
Tell him the museum just had a "Kids' Day" where they allowed children to paint the walls, and that one of the walls has to be whitewashed by morning.
Wall #1 has The Night Guard by Rembrandt
Wall #2 has a painting of the statue of the Artemis of Ephesus
Wall #3 has a Jackson Pollack
Wall #4 has The Persistence of Memory by Dali.
Which Wall will the Janitor whitewash?
That's the wall that isn't art, because it fails to communicate anything. The others will be intuitively meaningful even by an utterly untrained and uneducated person. Even a neanderthal would identify the artifice that went into 3 of 4 of them.
Did you ever notice anybody who tells you meaningless crap is meaningful themselves have no idea what the meaning is, even if they lie and throw some random shit out there to cover up their pretentious scam?