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Originally Posted by Libertine
That's rather dumb 
Some great pieces of art can only be fully understood in the context of the tradition that precedes them. If you aren't aware of the subtle references and jokes they contain, you probably won't be able to appreciate them. Judging them to be "crap" because your own knowledge falls short, however, is really quite shallow.
It's a bit like a teen who tries to read a book by someone like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Céline, doesn't understand it, gets bored and decides the book is crap. Obviously, the teen in question is wrong - the problem isn't the book he tried to read, the problem is the teen himself.
The works of Gustav Mahler, James Joyce and Pablo Picasso aren't as accessible as those of Britney Spears, Dan Brown and Anne Geddes. However, judging the former to be of lesser artistic value than the latter for that reason would be sheer idiocy. |
It's dumb only in the context that one didn't understand what kind of so-called "art" I had in mind when I posted the comment. What's also "dumb" my friend is assuming I meant all alternative or otherwise different types of art, especially when in fact I didn't. But if you really wanted to know what I meant you might have asked rather than opening with the not at all surprising insult gambit.
I'm sorry but, for example, a handful of metal hospital bedpans welded together along with a congested mass of other metalic odds and ends, old water pipes and toilet drains, purchased for say $100K and put on display in the main entrance of a large building, is in my view quite simply... crap.
Same with someone who slathers themselves with paint and wallows around like a pig in a sty for a while and then passes it off as art. Complete crap. People who pretend to appreciate such crap would just as likely buy a wall full of used asswipe if it was signed with the right name.
Visual art is at it's core a matter of taste. You're of course free to enjoy that kind of "art" if that's your thing. I won't be so impudent as to call such people's opinion "dumb", but I reserve the right to maintain my opinion the thing itself is crap.
I hope it's more obvious as to the kind of art I was referring to in my earlier post.
Thank you.