Take a Look At What Passes for "Art" in 2024 USA

[hjmick]

Not that I have any interest in being a sole arbiter, but Why ?

Are you saying that junk like stuff by Jackson Pollock's "art" is actually art? If so, you are just another sucker in th art world, and you should learn to distinguish between real art and scam art.

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So-called art "experts" call this abstract expressionism.

There is one word that comes to mind regarding what this expresses.
The word is NOTHING.

Why? Seriously? Because what constitutes art is purely subjective, it is the individual who determines whether or not something is art.

Pollack is not to my liking, but neither is Bert Emanual. I do not consider one more valid than the other, I will not say neither of them are art. They're simply not to my liking.

 

[protectionist]

Why? Seriously? Because what constitutes art is purely subjective, it is the individual who determines whether or not something is art.

Pollack is not to my liking, but neither is Bert Emanual. I do not consider one more valid than the other, I will not say neither of them are art. They're simply not to my liking.

To each his own. I haven't been looking for 100% acceptance. I'll settle for the 90% I have.

Regarding art being objective or subjective, that is quite true, but just within the context of pieces that are REAL art. Some pieces are outside that context, and are just simply scam junk. People should discern the difference. When they say that ALL art is subjective, that lends legitimacy to the scammers, and that is harmful to everyone.

Suppose an artist, paid $84,000 in advance, gave a gallery a BLANK canvas, and entitled it "Take the Money and Run" - should we call this art ? Subjective ? The museum didnt think so, and is asking for its money back.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jens-haaning-kunsten-museum-modern-art/index.html

 

[protectionist]

That Danish Museum that blew $84,000 and got stuck wth a blank canvas, should have paid their *84K for these >>>

Buddies by Bert Emanuel


Twilight San Francisco by Bert Emanuel

 

[Ringo]

 

[SootedUpCyndi]

That Danish Museum that blew $84,000 and got stuck wth a blank canvas, should have paid their *84K for these >>>

Buddies by Bert Emanuel
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Twilight San Francisco by Bert Emanuel
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you seem jealous? hilarious

 

[ChemEngineer]

For about twenty years, I continued to collect images of crap some called "art."
Then Google deleted all fifty of my websites after I criticized Hunter Biden for
his pedophilia.
So I attempted to rebuild it:

When Crap Is Art

when-crap-is-art.blogspot.com

My original URL was the same without hyphens.
If you click on the original, Google tells you it has been removed.

http://whencrapisart.blogspot.com

Much of what passes for "art" today is actually artifice, in other words a fraud, a fake.
I explain this in my website, and an art professor has a wonderful video differentiating art from artifice.

 

[protectionist]

you seem jealous? hilarious

That's stupid way of looking at it. No one could ever be "jealous" of junk. It's a matter of things being correct or incorrect.

 

[protectionist]

Very poor analysis. Frank Zappa seems to be unaware of a treasure trove of American culture, especially in music. Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock n Roll, and tons of great songs from American songwriters like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Chuck Berry, etc/

Poets like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, etc.

Thousands of excellent artists, nobody ever heard of.
See FineArtAmerica.com or Artpal.com

 

[Sparker]

The wealthiest classes of the wealthiest nations have so much money sloshing around in their pockets that they can throw thousands or millions of dollars at random objects that might be art.

 

[Ringo]

 

[protectionist]

The wealthiest classes of the wealthiest nations have so much money sloshing around in their pockets that they can throw thousands or millions of dollars at random objects that might be art.

True. They give art a bad name.

 

[WinterBorn]

True. They give art a bad name.

Art does not have a bad name. Enjoy what you like and leave the rest to those who enjoy it.

 

[Jantje_Smit]

Art does not have a bad name. Enjoy what you like and leave the rest to those who enjoy it.

The problem is that you actually have to pay for the public "art" that other people enjoy..

 

[WinterBorn]

The problem is that you actually have to pay for the public "art" that other people enjoy..



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A miniscule amount of taxes goes to protect and maintain the Arts.

 

[luiza]

Who has 95% plus control of the Galleries ?

Yes , even Art has been lumped within Entertainment and is part of the same Psy Op that covers Films and the Music Industry .
Other mediums are also available for the same reason .

Think it through .

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

This is what a supposedly dignified art museum currently displays on its walls, Video is from 11 days ago (February 8, 2024). >>
Sad that we have sunk this low.

But not all is lost. They are still artists producing the REAL thing. They may not have paintings in big city art museums, but they are here, and their paintings are viewable on line.
Here's an example >> Bert Emanuel
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[Libby von H]

This is what a supposedly dignified art museum currently displays on its walls, Video is from 11 days ago (February 8, 2024). >>
Sad that we have sunk this low.

But not all is lost. They are still artists producing the REAL thing. They may not have paintings in big city art museums, but they are here, and their paintings are viewable on line.
Here's an example >> Bert Emanuel
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$225 000 for Hunter Biden's

 

[protectionist]

$225 000 for Hunter Biden's

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I'll offer 10 cents for it.

 

[protectionist]

Art does not have a bad name. Enjoy what you like and leave the rest to those who enjoy it.

There is a difference between enjoying and being scammed.

 

[protectionist]

A miniscule amount of taxes goes to protect and maintain the Arts.

How much ?