Modern Art Criticism

Wow, it's like the history of modern art :)

Sadly, that's the modern understanding of arts.

The style and presentation method of the article is great.I hate this style of "art", though. If modern art should exist at all, it should be only at the fringes of the art world, as an occasional novelty, rather than the main attraction.For some reason, I feel unusually, viscerally, strongly about this topic. My first instinct was to just declare that this art is absolute fucking garbage (which feels like an indisputable fact to me, not just an opinion). But I thought I should t

"art" as a separate concept which is only for expression or decoration or things along those lines is relatively modern

Many modern art pieces could really be recreated. What's the difference you are trying to draw?

Might be related to the way modern art is ugly by design. Since it became easy to create beautiful things at scale, the "art" appreciation scene moved into ugly stuff, because only sophisticated art experts can appreciate the stuff, thus separating themselves from the common rubble.

It's like modern art at this point, anything from the 1800s qualifies.

Same as purpose of modern arts. True masters know its worth. Will it look good in my living room? Doesn't matter.

Unless it was modern art, of course.

Art has a long history, and aesthetics have changed over time. Techniques like Chiaroscuro and Contrapposto come and go. Highly developed cultures usually have highly developed art and vice versa. Art is usually a balance of ideas and aesthetics. No matter the contemporary techniques, the subject matter has usually been immediately recognizable by a lay viewer, and symbology can be decoded by the specialist. For example: is there a dove flying through a window and Mary is in the picture? That me