In an age where our pocket phones take excellent pictures, I can see how representative painting does not do well. I never said I was expecting representative

In an age where our pocket phones take excellent pictures, I can see how representative painting does not do well. I never said I was expecting representative art. I'm confused by your statement "some of the most renowned art does exactly the opposite [of reproduction]," though. Could you explain it? I'll freely admit I'm not much of a modern art fan. I'm not sure that colored stripes really clears the bar, even if you make the gigantic (although as another poster said, maybe I need to see them in their intended setting). I feel like just as art is more than simply reproducing a scene, art is also more than just producing a feeling. I looked up Duchamp, yeah, not a fan :) I think I probably understand the works better than Rothko, though.