Modern Art is Sh*t

[Kinser79]

(05-13-2016, 08:54 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: But I have the right to disagree in whole or part.

You have the right to be wrong, yes.

Quote: Elitist snob?

You constantly bring up your tastes in music, why should your behavior in regard to the visual arts be different?

Quote: One of the attractions of some Mexican restaurants is a mural painted by some local artist... it may be utilitarian, but it is still attractive.

I've never gone to a restaurant because of a mural. I go to a restaurant because the food is good. When it comes to Mexican food in particular, some of the best food I've ever had I purchased from a truck. If you're going to a Mexican restaurant to observe their art collection I'm afraid you're rather missing the point.

Quote: The more that I see of Norman Rockwell's depiction of a world more fragile than it seemed at the time and recognize that many of its virtues are fading out, the more I recognize its value. The world changes, and we evolve.

Yes well your generation broke it. All we have to remind us that there was a time where the entire western world wasn't a dreary shit hole based on moral relativism and postmodernist nihilism are his paintings and paintings of others like him.

Quote:I see no difference in theory between using a computer program to generate good decorative art and using brush, paint, and canvas -- or stained glass. Or motion picture camera and film.

Given the choice between a computer generated fractal whatever, I'll take a painting painted by a human any day. Which reminds me I need to take the kid to the beach next weekend. He's painted this same stretch of beach three times each at different phases of the moon.

Now that isn't to say that mathematics itself cannot be beautiful. A well formed equation can be quite sexy.