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Originally Posted by boo boo
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"
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I know what you mean. But I do find some of the ideas pretty interesting, especially in the way they weave a narrative of the artist continually reenvisioning his role in the 20th century with the advent of mechanical reproduction. With Warhol that struggle becomes self-aware and even self-parodying, which is what makes him so infuriating and immediately iconic. In any case, that painting is by Sam Francis, he does a lot of really intense abstract expressionism.