Modern Art is Sh*t

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-13-2016, 07:09 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I must say it is interesting that modern art museums have difficulty keeping their doors open with their tacky and trashy garbage while traditional art museums are doing just fine.

I appreciate some classic stuff starting around the Renaissance era, the French impressionist painters, Rodin, and Van Gogh's Starry Night.  While I wouldn't use the four letter word, the newer stuff labeled 'modern art' just leaves me cold.

Most of my art was purchased at science fiction conventions.  Much of it originated as cover art for paperback novels.  The painters who do that sort of stuff generally call themselves illustrators rather than artists, but technically they seem to me to be at least the equal of the old masters in creating realistic work often set in less than realistic science fiction and fantasy environments.  It isn't that the technique of art has been forgotten, it's that the rich folk and stuffy museums that decide what is worth big bucks have very much different taste than the rest of us.

I play with computer generated images.  The Digital Art Zone provides figures, clothing, sets, lighting, props, etc...  all that is needed to generate more or less photorealistic art.  My gallery is here, if anyone is curious, and one of my favorites is below.  Now, I haven't got the skills and years of training to be anything like a pro.  I sometimes feel like I'm playing with virtual Barbie dolls, dressing my ladies up, adjusting their body shape, skin tone, poses, lighting...  It's just a way of passing some time.  At the same time, the modern tools do things with light, shadow, perspective, tone...  lots of stuff... that are beyond a lot of the old greats.  Still, I'm just a hack amateur putting together some stuff that would be considered amazing a few decades back.

Anyway, beauty is still in the eyes of the beholder.  I'd agree that haut art has wandered far away from being main stream.  This doesn't mean one can't find interesting stuff if one looks for it.

Flora