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Modernism is ubiquitous. Likely your furniture, computers, cars, and home architecture are heavily modernist unless you explicitly seek out classical stuff. Mo
by shrimpx 3y ago
Modernism is ubiquitous. Likely your furniture, computers, cars, and home architecture are heavily modernist unless you explicitly seek out classical stuff.
Modernism is obsessed with truth and optimization, evolving toward an apex. Computing technology as a whole is modernist. Apple hardware design is a glaring example of a modernist pursuit (especially under Ive).
- chrisco255 3y agoOh boy, any one that thinks their particular art style is "truth" has an ego problem.
- operatingthetan 3y agoYou misunderstood what they said. "Modernism is obsessed with truth and optimization" does not equal "modernism is truth." They were also talking about it conceptually, not as "their" preferred art.
- chrisco255 3y agoI didn't misunderstand. Every art form is someone's truth so it's rather superfluous to say that modernism is obsessed with it.
- operatingthetan 3y agoIs this some defect in abstract thinking? No experience with philosophy? Whatever the case it appears to be bad faith or blatant misunderstanding the basics of a well-worn topic to me especially given how you tried to reframe it as a condemnation.
- krapp 3y agoAnd the most modernist form of art now is AI generated art. Pure form and aesthetic, but no real meaning or intent, like a face in a mirror, something shaped like human meaning but utterly devoid of it, manufactured like so much else of our reality. Which, ironically, makes it legitimately art. It's art because it's anti-art.
- shrimpx 3y agoThat's cool. The Dadaists and some Surrealists were doing stuff like that intentionally, trying to make art devoid of an artist, or of intent. Also the beat poets, who were trying to write intent-free stream of consciousness texts, kind of like a token-prediction engine. :)