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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
For me there's just as much appeal in subverting aesthetic standards as in perfecting them. Dali is great because he does both, but I have much love for Duchamp as well. It's also worth pointing out that some conceptual art is really really funny or a complete mindf uck. I saw one conceptual art piece that had a bunch of rats in a 3D transparent maze--each wall of the maze had a tv facing the rats showing them the maze set up and themselves. Then outside the set-up there was a guy banging something with a baseball bat. The pointlessness becomes the point and life is implicated. Maybe conceptual art is only worthwhile on LSD. Whatever. I think the liberation of art is wonderful.
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Well that one looks really cool, who is that?
The thing with a lot of modern art, especially concept art and pop art, is that it's not meant to be aesthetically pleasing, it just has some kind of statement, and if that statement is lost on you, the art becomes completely worthless. I find most of the statements in modern art to be painfully obvious or it dosen't make any kind of sense whatsoever. Most of all it dosen't require any skill of any kind, just an idea.
"Hey let's take a photograpth of Marilyn Monroe and invert the colors"
"Brilliant"