Modern art looks… bad. Or atleast uninspired. Picasso paintings look like something I could paint 10 years ago. There’s an argument to be made that these artists can get away with making crap since they are famous and everyone will sycophant anyways, and I think that’s an entirely valid argument, but something more interesting for analysis is the idea of intentionally breaking the norms of common practice.
I’ve gotten really obsessed with modern art (a term I’m misusing, really I’m referring to everything that isn’t traditional 18th century still lifes) and its sister, absurd media. Everything from John Cage’s 4:33 to Pollock’s paint dripping on canvases.
Ostensibly, modern art was made to challenge the notions of what art even is, and damn has it worked fantastically. I think seeing so much absurd media and modern art has opened my mind to the idea that new worldviews can come from anywhere.
