[IronJack]

I would go one step farther in this heresy and suggest that, while Vincent van Gogh did some remarkably vibrant work, he has earned none of the abject fealty he commands today.

And while we're at it, Leonard Bernstein was a hack, Isadora Duncan was a wacked-out skank, and Andy Warhol should have spent his fifteen minutes in a dumpster. Don't get me started on Truman Captoe or Gore Vidal.

[Paul Atreides]

Modernism is like liberalism; two of the biggest scams foisted on the world. I took a course on Modern Art and it and liberalism go hand-in-hand.

[Miss Marple]

How about Maya Angelou? What a bunch of nothing poetry!!

And I don't like Mondrian, or Picasso, or Robert Indiana, whose sculptures are LETTERS, for heaven's sake!

The modern art world is an exercise in marketing, nothing more.

[Sam Cree]

This thread is really humerous.

I agree about Picasso, but like Van Gogh alot. There is other modern(e) art that I admire also, the EMD E-8 locomotive, designed in the 1930's plus many appliances and furniture from the 1950's.

Funny how the elite likes to pretend certain things are so great. A way of pretending superiority.

[ladyjane]

Don't get me started on Truman Captoe

While his personal life was a bit out of the ordinary, some of his writing was wonderful!