/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>The contempt you little shitbrains have for modern art
I think you're making too many assumptions about the people you're talking to. There are plenty of 20th century and contemporary artists I enjoy. I'm a huge Jeff Koons fan. I've even grown to appreciate Twombly more since creating this thread. I still think the piece in the OP is pretty crap and not anywhere near worth its price tag, but I like the Twombly pictured here a lot better. It's just that a ton of contemporary art happens to be shit, or at the very least it's undeserving of the position it's accorded in high culture.

>You defend your stance of "individual styles are bad"
When people here shit on "style", they're mainly targeting shitty teenagers on deviantart who are more concerned with "finding a style" rather than actually learning how to draw.

>It's like fucking cleaning ladies trying to talk about rocket science.
And here we have an excellent illustration of one of the biggest problems with contemporary art.

There's a general fear that art by its nature isn't good enough. It's too playful, too simple, not serious enough, not conceptual enough. How much can you really respect a man who sits around making colored marks on paper all day, for no other reason than that he finds these marks pleasing? We might respect his as a craftsman, but even then, is his craft really an important one? There's a fear that if there isn't a complex enough conceptual apparatus behind your work then people won't take you seriously, and an even deeper fear that those people will turn out to be correct and that you don't DESERVE to be taken seriously.

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