/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3220921
>I hate numales!
>have you tried being pegged in the ass?
>No but I hate them!
(just trying to show your metaphor doesn't apply to everything)

As I said, I have no issue with the content and intent, unless it's knee jerk rebellion, but I can't call it Art, I don't believe it's art. I can admire something without compromising the legacy and intent of

I do not like how Monet has been retconned to be some genesis for modern art, even if the water lilies were painted purely to decorate some clientelle's bedroom or antechambre with beautiful tones, they are still an exultation of the human condition - sensory beauty, the poetry of nature, higher virtues, a tonic to hamartia, the refinement of colour theory etc. I think Monet wouldn't have thought especially highly of Duchamp's urinal at all, frankly.

I also think it's amusing how presumptuous and conceited a lot of modern artists are. They literally believe that no other civilisation had the brilliant ideas of Duchamp, or that they are smashing some (presumed wrong and useless) standards for art, which is nearly always tied in to knee jerk rebellion against tradition and even animosity towards Westerners (even though the pursuit of art and beauty as a language is found across humanity).