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Susie Hodges answers the question, ‘why do you want to address the view that modern art is child’s play?’
Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled “Olympia” (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spontaneous “LNAPRK” (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emins “My Bed” (1998) and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of the ideas of their time.
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Modern art is NOT art. It is bull Shit. Anyone claiming it IS art is full of it.
If it takes more time to explain why something really is art than producing the "art" itself, it is not art.
then we should not call it art cause art inherently means something beautiful and there is nothing beautiful in an artist canning his shit and putting it on display. off course there is a grand hidden meaning behind it but we would need an Einstein's brain to comprehend it. But even my pea brain can say that this is not an art even though there is thought emotions and blah blah behind it
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To say that modern art is simply for the artist is like someone finding a cure for cancer and only using it for themselves. Art should express ideas and stir up the imagination for the viewer. Art should be shared to the world, instead of being horded. That of course is just my opinion. Look at timeless pieces of art, and try to understand what has made them stand the test of time.
Silver fly rise to the powder sky when tunnels close, a cow chosen.
So basically modern art is like politics. Instead of art, they show some abstract images and try to save their skin by explaining why their piece is more important than the others. Susie Hodges confirmed on the video, that any 5 years old child could do the image, but not the explaining part. Interesting.
If salt mines ever reach a historic low, I'll be happy to direct global industry to this comments section. Your tears are delicious. Please keep trying to educate the philistines, Susie!
while everything is justified and yes, the artist did maybe purposefully do whatever they did in the piece, they appear random. which means, that a five year old could do it. there would be no thought behind it, but the five year old could produce something like that. perhaps not sculptures, because yes they are five, but normal canvas work, they could do. meaning is all good and well, but in modern art no one can see the meaning apart from the artist, so it renders it without message, and as i've just said; a five year old could do it
Haha, fuck you
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My farts also have a realy deep meaning and that's why I always inhale them deeply. I could explain it to you, but you wouldn't get it anyway.
"If you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect" Mark Twain99.9% of people in the comment section do not get modern art, nor will they with the type of mentality found in the comments.
modern art is BULLSHIT.
Ha! You know you could make your modern "art" digging deep into the philosophy of some scribbles or you could make something that doesn't look like a donkey was tring to eat cake with his butt and happen to get some crums and poop on the canvas. Like I don't know the meening of what you are creating is to look good.
Elaborated excuses justify bad work. This is applied to modern "art".
Modern artists are literally stomping on all talented artists
I could take a shit on a piece of paper and make some elaborate story behind this "art" and sell it for millions? sign me up!
contemporary art is not art most of it
The most important thing that's missing from this modern "art" in order to be art is the effort.
Therefore, a five year old kid could easily make more impressive art than this.
Art is made from emotions such like anger, happiness or depression. When I make my paintings I put so much effort, passion and love in it. For example: I went to a modern museum once and saw a painting with nothing more than a red stripe, but art is so much more than that. When you make art, it is a part of you, it is something you've created from your mind and emotions. I am sad that art have turned out to this. It is now nothing more but garbage. Our generation's imagination is completely empty and makes no sense to me.
If art is expression, then everyone can be an artist, but that doesn't mean that every piece is praiseworthy. A rule of thumb: If I can do it myself, being that I'm unskilled, then it's not laudible.
p.s.: How is it that art should be explained? Don't we know art when we see it?
I agree that there is more to art than technical skill, but its also more than peoples impressions of what they think is important about the environment, politics, and economics etc. . Being clever is popular in modern art, but often the artists themselves are ignorant of the subjects they judge in their art.
Interesting book