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Nitpick: you’re talking about contemporary art, not modern art. Contemporary art is like contemporary music or anything we currently live in: some things may be
by hk__2 4y ago
Nitpick: you’re talking about contemporary art, not modern art. Contemporary art is like contemporary music or anything we currently live in: some things may be good, other not, and we don’t know yet what will be remembered as “good art” or “good music” in 50 or 200 years. But without these experimentations art can’t evolve. People stopped doing paintings like Michelangelo did not because they weren’t beautiful, but because they wanted to experiment with something else, to exprime their ideas in different ways.
Comparing old art and contemporary art is irrelevant for this reason. You’re comparing what we remember from one era to what’s currently being experimented.
It would be very reductive to describe art as “something that’s beautiful”. A more general definition would be “a creation that makes you react”. You may be in awe or caught with disgust; in both cases the artwork creates a reaction.
Cattelan’s art is built on provocation. Whether you like it or not, this is some kind of art.
- fuzzfactor 4y ago>People stopped doing paintings like Michelangelo did Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they were not capable and recognized their own limitations.
- hk__2 4y ago> Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they were not capable and recognized their own limitations. It’s a bit more complicated; Michelangelo was not a random artist painting alone in his workshop and you wouldn’t have been able to do what he did just because you were technically able. He was active durant the High Renaissance (like Raffaello and Leonardo), a period that ended with the Sack of Rome and the end of the Republic of Florence. It’s not that you couldn’t do it after him, it’s that the conditions that allowed him (and Raffaello, Leonardo and others) to do what he did were gone.
- bobthechef 4y ago[dead]