Modern Art

[Pyper]

I used to be one of those people who pishawed at modern art, using the typical argument of "it doesn't make sense" and "I could do that", until I realized it's so much more FUN that classical art.

When I was in Madrid, I visited two art museums in two days. The first was the Prado, a museum of classical, mostly Renaissance Art. The second was the Reina Sofia, a museum of 20th century Spanish art.

After wandering around the Prado for an hour, I started to get really bored. You can only look at paintings where everyone looks like they do in real life except for being beautiful and perfect for so long. The Reina Sofia on the other hand, kept me entertained. A great challenge was to look at a work of art and determine what we thought it was, then look at the actual title and blurb about it. It was so interesting to see different interpretations of the visual world.

What do you think of modern art as compared to a more traditional style?

 

[Siren]

 

[Starfish]

Why does the definition of Modern art only fall to this abstract stuff you are refering to?

Isn't it Modern if it is made in our era? Well, I know a lot of people who create a great deal of art, myself included, and it doesn't fit the mold of what you are talking about, so I am lost as to what catagory my art would fit in.


*stumped*

I always considered myself a modern artist. That is what I voted as. I love modern art, but I also love all art.

Though, I see WAY too much manufacturing of art that is redundant in style, and simply not a good exhibitition of an understanding of compostion and all of it's facets, and that crap is called modern art only because it is abstract. And then I see a great deal of work that is good, and it is called Modern art too. Well, I never see a still life called Modern art, even though it's contents and style are somewhat modern. Strange.

Well, I guess all I can say is...

Art is Art is Art....

 

[Private Vasquez]

It depends on the piece, I suppose.
I put some paint on a ball of rubberbands and called it art once. It was beeuuuutiful!

 

[Pyper]

When I say modern art, I am referring to the sculptural tradition begun by Rodin in the late nineteenth century and the painting tradition begun by Picasso in the early twentieth century. "Modern art" as a technical definition is any art that evolved from the work of (generally) these two artists.

Paintings in the traditional style painted in the modern era (i.e. late late ninteenth up to today) do not count as modern art.

At least for the purposes of this discussion.

 

[Starfish]

Okay, Well, that is what I figured, because that is what most of society accepts as the definition, but I find it to be a rather limiting title, considering that the future of art may not have roots in these forms. What then?

 

[Starfish]

I recant my one vote to the first option. I am NOT a modern artist.

Those of you who voted the last vote can kiss my lily white, artistic, snooty ass. What a narrow minded view point.

geesh.

 

[Pyper]

Well, from the way they made it sound in art class, since the Renaissance, Western Art has been evolving along steadily. Each generation was influenced by the immediate past generation. There were a few leaps and bounds, such as Neo-Classicism, but those were not spontaneous generations of a totally new art form, but rather copies of a much older one.

Out of curiousity, what direction do you see modern art taking, Starfish?

 

[Pyper]

I recant my one vote to the first option. I am NOT a modern artist.

Those of you who voted the last vote can kiss my lily white, artistic, snooty ass. What a narrow minded view point.

geesh.

Don't recant. I meant the "I am a modern artist!" part as a bit of a joke.

And they can kiss my ass too!

 

[Starfish]

But really, this is about the art, not my interpretation of certain terms...


So, here is an example of good modern art.


Henri Matisse

Still life with blue table cloth 1909

Odalisque 1923

Both exhibit excellent understanding of color and value, along with composition or in the case of the second, strong exhibition of form.

 

[lavender]

 

[Pyper]

I might agree if I could see anything.

 

[Starfish]

One more Matisee


Male Modle 1900

 

[Starfish]

Amedo Modigliani

Rose Caryatid (Audace) 1914

Portrait of Deigo Rivera 1914

Seated Nude 1916

Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne (1898 -1920), Common-Law Wife of Amedeo Modigliani 1919

 

[Pyper]

For some reason, I'm having trouble loading images in posts. I am familiar with Matisse, though.

I like modern art ranging from works like Matisse's where you can recognize easily what he was trying to portray to abstract art that may look nothing like what it is supposed to portray.

Even I, though, draw the line at rectangles, blank or one color canvases. The first guy who did it gets credit for originality, but after that the artists need to move on.

Well, I'm off to bed. I hope more people vote in my poll, even if they don't want to post. I like my poll! I think it's funny!

 

[kotori]

i like the abstract expressionists, i like when the center of the art world moved from europe to new york city right after the war. i love jackson pollack and rauschenberg (sp?). photography freed "art" from being representational, we see it first in the impressionists. i gotta go to bed too.

 

[Azwed]

Lavy Have you seen M. It was a movie made in germany towards the end of the German Expreisonistic(sp sue me) period. I think it was 1931 and the Director was Fritz Lang.

 

[MissVictoria]

I judge it, as all art, on an individual basis.

 

[Oilpainter]

I really enjoy all art. To me, art is a form of personal experience unique to each of us. Some of us prefer what you describe as "modern art," and some prefer other forms of art. I just prefer to paint. I am influenced by many different styles. The painting I did in my AV is actually of a statue of Siddartha which sits in the Louvre. I really try to experience as many different styles of art as possible. I think one should always keep an open mindwhen appreciating art. Just my thoughts

 

[Anais Dahl]

For me it completely depends on the piece. I like many forms of art and styles. I just like what pleases my eye or stirs emotion in me.

 

[Sillyman]

As far as how art is currently moving, I feel there is not much new ground being broken. I think we've been seeing the same sort of material for a while now. A lot of what bugs me is not that what is being produced is not a direct representation of a physical object, but that the mood of the piece tends to be so mixed and murky.

 

[phrodeau]

After seeing Starfish's art, I declare that her work is post-modern.

 

[SpiceCake]

The words "modern art" reminds me of my ex-husband's ex-wife! *shudders*

 

[LordOfDarkness]

modern art is cool.

 

[Never]

Pyper:
"What do you think of modern art as compared to a more traditional style?"

Modern art is horrible. It took away that little oompaloopa..er, cocopie? Kockipittle? Kookamonga?

I miss the little dancing god.