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There is some very good stuff being done now, but it doesn't get much high end gallery space or praise. Its too "pedestrian" and "derivative" to be liked by the glitterati.

The truth is, most of what's produced in any age is not art, its either trash or fascinating craftwork. Yes, that Picasso is praised and beloved but honestly, its crap. I'm sorry. So is that Kadinsky and the Banksy piece. Its just trash.

Every so often there's an amazing surge of talent and artistic genius, such as the Renaissance, but those eras are rare. We've probably killed off more than half the inventors, artists, and assorted geniuses with abortions in the last few generations anyway.

Trashy faux art represents the age of democratic equality all to well.

While in art school working toward the BFA, Abe Ajay one of the instructors said art with out saying something is just babble. Actually saying something is not as common as one thinks.

There is a remarkable amount of antisemitic and racist bile in the comments to that article.

re: Modern Art

1) By all means read The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. He does a complete autopsy on the fraud of Modern Art.

2) Was back in the 60s and was visiting Pittsburgh (a girl was involved) and I was talked in to viewing with her a large exhibition of modern art at the Carnegie Museum just adjacent to the Pitt Campus. It was a big deal at the time with rooms and rooms of so called Modern Art including paintings, mobiles, motorized contraptions, sculptures and One, only One traditional realistic painting by Andrew Wyeth which was shunted off in a corner. What trash.
A half decade later I got married to a New Yorker and to this day have never visited the Guggenheim or the Whitney but many times have visited the Metropolitan and especially the Frick Collection over the years when we visited her parents.

Dan Kurt

Modern art provides a way for the otherwise talentless to grow wealthy with government subsidies and the patronage of equally vapid nouveaux riches of various types who want to show how much "taste" they have. Unfortunately, it comes shining through all too clearly.

I can't fault people that have no talent or drive and still practice as young children, but what I find utterly despicable are the trash minds that attribute thousands of words attempting to explain to the unknowing what we are supposed to be *feeling* upon introduction to any of these embarrassments. There will always be idiots and lazy asses but the salesman that pander that shit to others should be shunned, banished and/or beaten. There are artists and then there are people that call themselves artists and thinkers know the difference.

Okay Boys and Girls, time for a quiz:

Can You Tell The Difference Between Modern Art And Paintings By Toddlers?

www(DOT)buzzfeed(DOT)com/jenlewis/quiz-can-you-tell-the-difference-between-modern-art-and-art

(I got 5 out of 11 Correct - which means that a random guess of athe True/false questions would have actually did better than my failed attempt at discerning 'art' - statistically speaking of course)

You posted a video by Roger Scruton on beauty. We should watch it again, here.
http://brambergsk.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/why-beauty-matters-2009-bbc/

It would erase the ick from our eye holes.

@Cond0011: you're taking the wrong quiz. Of course you can't tell the difference between modern art and toddler art. That's the whole point. I bet you'd have no problem telling apart a Rembrandt or a Rafael from a modern painting, though. One is beautiful, the other isn't. Piece of cake.

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