Ok, fair enough.
I hope you don't think I'm dismissing all modern art or pop art, I agree that theres some amazing stuff that came out of those movements, I just have a strong distaste for most of it.
Op art and photorealism are great, lowbrow too.
With too much modern art though, it's not about the imagery or the detail, just the context behind it. But in that sense, you can look at a piece of pop art, say to yourself "well that's clever" and then you have no reason to ever look at it again because it's so simplistic that theres nothing left to observe. I think art that's easy to make and easy to "get" is also easy to forget. Art should tell a story, not just an idea, it should take you to a certain place, that's what I get from surrealism, expressionism, impressionism and realism. When I look at a Malevich painting of a brown square, I see nothing but a brown square, and I don't get it, and even if I did, it wouldn't matter.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention Roger Dean, another big favorite of mine.
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