I will give you a couple of examples of what some of the “core students” considered art. We were taken to a gallery to view some “art”.
A female student had taken dead tree branches made them stand upright and hung rubber chickens from them with string. Then 2 male students had emptied out an old garage, painted the rotten boards and every single thing in the garage, red, and rebuilt it and put all the (now red) objects back into it. That’s art, right?
The painting class that I was in was instructed to read a book entitled “The Pot That Was Not A Pot” and be inspired to make a painting from that inspiration. The book made absolutely no sense, probably written by a drugged out abuser. The instructor was not impress with my painting, I would have been dissappointed if he had been.
There are still some talented artist out there, painting beautiful landscapes, still life and portraits, beautiful art has not died.
Those are surely typical examples of modern “art”!
You are correct, Ditter—beautiful art has not died. As long as people who have good, pure hearts remain, there will still be good art (I consider myself one of the good artists, even though I rarely paint or draw lately).