Modern Art is Sh*t

[Kinser79]

(05-22-2016, 11:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: To Hell with the "art snobs"! As I have typically known about snobs, the less legitimate their claim to economic or intellectual superiority over what they deride, the more obnoxious they are.

Odd that sounds remarkably like my argumentation as to why modern so-called art is shit.

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Quote:I'm half tempted to say "pics or it didn't happen".

I took pictures, but more of surrounding buildings. Great art gets reduced to photographs only with great loss to the worth of the image.

I see the "pics or it didn't happen" meme is lost on you. I'm surprised you left your home town long enough to go to a museum. Hopefully you'll be less mopey for a month or two.

Quote:I trust that you realize that Matisse is not abstract. But few painters can express such joy as he can.

I would call Matisse an impressionist rather than an abstract impressionist. He really tried to capture the way the light was captured on objects as such he had to paint quickly and with less detail, but the detail isn't what is important, rather the way the illusion of light is captured near perfectly is what is important.

Quote:It looks better than I expected. Of course I know its limitations! Acrylic paint from Hobby Lobby on a small canvas from Wal*Mart? Not knowing what I was getting made it something of a surprise. But I know some of the conventions of what is good and what is not.

My kid prefers oils, but we've also paid for him to take courses at Bob Ross' school which is local to where I am. Bob Ross is something of a local celebrity that people still talk about though he's been dead for a while. His kids run the school. Anyway it isn't the medium that matters, it is the technique that matters. Though some mediums are more forgiving than others. Oils are perhaps the easiest as they dry the slowest with water colors being the hardest as they dry relatively quickly.

Quote:They will most likely come through primitive art, something not so amenable to the expression more of the soul of the artist than of physical reality.

Depends on what you mean by primitive. I would not call the Highway Men primitive though there are clear folk art influences, and most of their work was done in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. They were called the highway men because they'd drive around FL and paint stuff.

Quote:Mozart is not "alright". His music is the most refined expression of sound that anyone ever created. Besides, "alright" is not a real world.

I find Mozart to be somewhat stiff. Grieg and Tchaikovsky are both passionate. I would argue that if one wants to listen to the most refined expression of sound ever created by humans Beethoven would be it. He has the passion of the Romantics and the formality of the Classics.

Quote:It sounds promising. My second painting, and the first without instruction, wasn't intended to be much. It's really an exercise, an accident that tuned out better than much of the pretentious schlock I have seen. But it is on to learning to paint fur, feathers, fish and reptile scales, brick (with mortar, and I figure that a toothpick will be the best implement for mortar), tree bark, leaves, water ripples, windows, and shadows -- all of which seem much more complicated.

Depends on what you want to paint. Landscapes tend to favor fan brushes and pallet knives.