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[tusenoch]

open to everyone who reads these questions...

what are your thoughts on modern art, please?
especially the non-representative works, abstracts, osv
painting, sculpture, osv
mid-twentieth century up to today
if you like it, what is it that you like about it? do you have any favorite artists?
if you do not like it, why not?

thank you for your

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wow what an essay!

[jackieohno]

even though i complain a lot about modern art (to myself, that is) when i visit contemprary art museums (especially when i see those canvases completely covered by blue paint or black or what have you -- but this is probably because i don't have an art theory education. and yet i think i'd be impatient with this sort of art anyway) i find that i like visiting modern art museums most, because oftentimes that is when i see the most interesting art.

like when i was at the Tate Modern this summer, i saw this exhibit by an artist named Joseph Grigely, and he's been deaf since he was a child, and he'd put up all the hundreds of notes that'd been written to him for the past I don't know how many years on a wall. and reading these notes was just amazing, i felt like an intruder, a voyeur, and yet i was fascinated by the sheer randomness of some of them. like one of them asked if there was a good thai restaurant nearby--and i could imagine the whole scenario being played out, with a man stopping the artist to ask for the direction, and finding out he was deaf and then writing it on a piece of paper.

and my favourite note of all had to be this:

"Shut up + get naked
You gotta something to say to me tonite
then show me
damnit"

because fuck, can you imagine what must've happened for such a note to be written? plus that's just really hot.

so yeah. i find that i have rather extreme reactions towards modern art. some i hate and find a waste of space, others i'm utterly indifferent to, and yet others that i absolutely love with a passion... and i think that maybe that's something that's unique to modern art, y'know?