/fa/ - Fashion

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>le emperor's new clothes meme
the ironic part is that crying the "emperor's new clothes" wolf is emblematic of a century old lower class insecurity regarding high art that resulted in them self-obstructing their own access to it when given. the anecdote goes: the early 20th century avant-garde wanted to bring art out of the exclusive realm of the upper classes, to the working man, by making universal art. the iconic example: malevich's black square. no more obscurely coded references or exclusive contextualization, these were works any human could enjoy as well as any other.

but did they? no. they saw this simplistic work and thought it must be those ebil upper class with too much free time playing a sick joke on me. they're all just pretending this stuff is innovative and classic, opening up their galleries in the middle of the city for me to see, but I'm not going to fall for it!

and so they didn't. that's the story of how the lower class won, and lost art.

And here you are, still perpetuating the same absurd insecurities, trying to convince yourself that you, in your "authentically" ignorant innocence, can see right through what artists, curators, collectors and critics who invest so much into studying the field cannot.

when it's exactly that massive ego of yours that's stopping you from enjoying what they can

¯\_(ツ)_/¯