>But modern art, like Jackson Pollock, that's a steaming hot pile of shit that means nothing. There is no skill in it. There is no knowledge. No study. No insig

>But modern art, like Jackson Pollock, that's a steaming hot pile of shit that means nothing. There is no skill in it. There is no knowledge. No study. No insight. There is no thought or emotion. There is just the cold hard glint of gold in the eye of the so-called artist and those who sell his garbage on as art to people who only understand the value of money, and have no other value in life than money. This hot take is relatively common right now but it's not particularly true. Modern art explores a whole host of ideas that classical art cannot and does not. The strong masculine lines and flat surfaces overlay an exploration in novel geometries you just can't get in endless refinement of an existing form. The classics are forever stuff making a hierarchy of forms that are the same thing from top to bottom. A human hand is part of a human torso which is a part of a human body. A modern art piece can have forms that are alien, materials that are foreign, ideas that are new, in a form that thrusts out into the world as it's own being. JP was broke most of his life and had a drinking problem, he created the perception of space through the application of paint layers, rather than perspective or all the traditional tools. That wasn't done before. Modern art is needed now more than ever because that's the one place we can bring an world of disparate ideas into an order that shapes the country, the future and humankind. Classical art relies heavily upon a reception of the infinite quantity of existing forms, like endlessly spirally plant leaves and filigree. Those things already existed, the classics just received and refined it. A classical perspectives' best chance at creating something new, is not to set out to create something new, but instead to be the one that got it working first, as they always have done. The derided modernist is frequently the true innovator. Having said all that there's a lot of shit modern art that was built for the artist's flight of fancy that wasn't apart of a greater meaning or order that can be tossed, requires to be removed!