/lit/ - Literature

>>12401848
The problem with conceptual art for me is that the concept can easily be removed from the art and the concept is held higher than the craft. With the history of painting or sculpture, for example, it took a lifetime of refinement and experimentation for an artists oeuvre to become influential or appreciated. Conceptual artists have no craft that can be refined. Even though western painting is married with western cannon, at least until impressionism came about, the beauty of these paintings can stand on there own merit without the need for the viewer to recognise the concept. This is why people become so jaded with modern conceptual art, especially if they don't know or don't care about the concept because as an object of beauty or of interest, it fails.

Obviously, my point brings up what art means to people, and I understand different art serves different purposes, but concept art seems to severely fail in many ways to the public and many artists today. I think it's mainly viewed as insincere since it has basically enabled capitalism to come to an extreme in the art world and it has stopped serving the viewer with a new or interesting take on the world. Conceptual art just seems to try and shock people in a world where everyone is disenfranchised.