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Paedantic Basterd · 09-30-2017, 05:23 PM

I prefer modern art when it comes to... pretty much every artistic medium. Contemporary art? Yes. Modern music? Yes. Modern films? Yes. Modern TV story-telling? Yes.

It's not that I think old works are irrelevant. They aren't, and many of them are wonderful. I just prefer the work of people who refined a medium to those who invented aspects of it. I love seeing how all the techniques others pioneered come together.

I also tend to think that culture shapes the stories people tell in ways that make modern stories more relevant to me than older stories. An example of this is Rear Window: Excellently directed film, but the story does not impress me and many aspects that defined an earlier American culture are just frustrating as a viewer now, including the benevolent sexism and the characters' nosiness and rejection of clear facts (and preference for intuition).

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	I prefer modern art when it comes to... pretty much every artistic medium. Contemporary art? Yes. Modern music? Yes. Modern films? Yes. Modern TV story-telling? Yes. It's not that I think old works are irrelevant. They aren't, and many of them are wonderful. I just prefer the work of people who refined a medium to those who invented aspects of it. I love seeing how all the techniques others pioneered come together. I also tend to think that culture shapes the stories people tell in ways that make modern stories more relevant to me than older stories. An example of this is Rear Window: Excellently directed film, but the story does not impress me and many aspects that defined an earlier American culture are just frustrating as a viewer now, including the benevolent sexism and the characters' nosiness and rejection of clear facts (and preference for intuition).