[servo1969]

[IronJack]

If everything is art, then nothing is art.

[BitWielder1]

Some artists like to push the envelope to see what they can get away with.
The problem is that we're spending huge amount of tax payer money on so-called art that it's tilting the market.
In normal times, what people are willing to spend THEIR OWN MONEY on will eventually weed out the crap art.

[mjp]

I now also see that an anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Enlightenment ideology also drives modern art.

Secular humanism leads to subjectivism and relativism, which leads to lack of standards, which leads to pluralism and equivalency.

Postmodernism leads to nihilism,which leads to destruction of art.

[GraceG]

Commie goal

22) Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

In Cleveland, we have that stooped rubber stamp “sculpture. I say;

Today, Art can be a booger with a hair in it!

[GraceG]

Commie goal

23) Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

[Oliviaforever]

“I’ve since expanded my original theory about photography’s and atheism’s effects on art. I now also see that an anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Enlightenment ideology also drives modern art.”

If it is without God, against America and communist, it can’t be art. It may be something, but not art.

[Oliviaforever]

1. Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting [three panel], 1951; latex paint on canvas, 72 in. x 108 in. (182.88 cm x 274.32 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through a gift of Phyllis Wattis; © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

[warsaw44]

" Dempsey and Fripo " by George Bellows, 1924 Modern Art

[JoeFromSidney]

Some twenty years ago I was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Technological Research at the University of Sao Paolo, in Brazil.

One Sunday my colleagues took me to the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paolo. One of the items on display was a 3-dimensional gridwork of metal rods. The "thing" was about a foot and a half on a side, and the rods looked about the size of welding rods.

A few days later my colleagues took me along on a trip to a project the Institute was carrying out. On the way we passed a spot where a bridge was being built over the road. The workers had put together a framework of reinforcing bars, ready to have the forms put up and the concrete poured for a bridge pillar. I looked at the thing and laughed. Except for scale, that rebar framework looked just like the "thing" in the art museum.

I think all of "modern art" is a fraud.

[CtBigPat]

There is plenty of great art out there. Sometimes it just requires the right inspiration.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term.
Giotto, Titan, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and has exhausted, as best he could, the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries.
Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.”—Pablo Picasso