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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m highly educated and even studied the humanities more than the average person I  come across.

There’s a lot of art and a lot of art commentary that is absolutely vapid.  The people who fawn over this subculture and create an air of importance and prestige around this art should be ridiculed more than they are.

I like art, I like modern art, and I appreciate a wide array of art that may not be everyone’s cup of tea.  But there has to be a line drawn somewhere and the [b]breathless descriptions of the genius of a paint splatter or a black line across a canvas [/b]deserve nothing.  It is a grift.[/quote]

Where have you seen/heard this? (other than parodies of the art world)[/quote]

See, I think this is where it’s revealing who is actually informed and who is not.  [b]That you’ve never encountered this just means you haven’t interacted with the “right” people.  [/b]

The entire contemporary art world is so severely jargonized, their lexicon of critique so esoteric, and access so limited - that in fact, the value in some of these absurdly simple pieces is that it exists and has been accepted as valuable by this “secret” world. They place a high value on the normies and plebes not getting it.  That is the point.

Which makes them unintentionally satirical and an art form in and of themselves.  It’s meta.

But, art should be accessible to a broad set of people, it doesn’t meant it must be accepted or appreciated by “everyone” but when you draw a line on a canvas and then build an esoteric insular technical world around it to make it “special” and valuable it’s all just a farce and a grift.  [/quote]

PP here and my DH has spent his career working in art museums. I have a close family member who owns a contemporary art gallery. I’ve never heard breathless descriptions of paint splatters or black lines. No doubt there are bloviating grifters out there, but the art world can be very accessible to anyone who really wants to try to understand.[/quote]

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