More recent sculptures in parks or elsewhere supposedly honouring MLK or JFK are beyond blasting a message of disrespect, degradation and mocking. Their art is merely a reveal of the void in their own souls. God help them. The cartoonish and depressing street art they spread is anything but true art. I remember taking classes at Museum of Fine Arts school in Boston and the teacher wanted exactly this. Anything that represented beauty she called "decorative" and that wasn't what was wha the self anointed art experts were looking for from the class, so the gullible students gave them exactly what they wanted. Extremely sad.
Marie-Antoinette's expression: "Let them eat cake" wouldn't even apply under 21st Century sadistic gangsterism, as starving Palestinians aren't even doled out crumbs.
Providing extreme contrasts is what modern art is all about. Surrealism came to be in the midst of the WWI, the destruction of Europe. Finery and ashes. Decapitations in the trenches. Life and Death. Gone is the play of light on a figure, the Rembrandts, the subtleties of mid-range tones, depicting light and life as they truly happen. The artists who are still human are out there, but you have to seek them out.
More recent sculptures in parks or elsewhere supposedly honouring MLK or JFK are beyond blasting a message of disrespect, degradation and mocking. Their art is merely a reveal of the void in their own souls. God help them. The cartoonish and depressing street art they spread is anything but true art. I remember taking classes at Museum of Fine Arts school in Boston and the teacher wanted exactly this. Anything that represented beauty she called "decorative" and that wasn't what was wha the self anointed art experts were looking for from the class, so the gullible students gave them exactly what they wanted. Extremely sad.
Marie-Antoinette's expression: "Let them eat cake" wouldn't even apply under 21st Century sadistic gangsterism, as starving Palestinians aren't even doled out crumbs.
When I remember the 1990 photographs of Benetton, I stop breathing.
We are still at it.
Providing extreme contrasts is what modern art is all about. Surrealism came to be in the midst of the WWI, the destruction of Europe. Finery and ashes. Decapitations in the trenches. Life and Death. Gone is the play of light on a figure, the Rembrandts, the subtleties of mid-range tones, depicting light and life as they truly happen. The artists who are still human are out there, but you have to seek them out.
Looks like degenerate decadence to me! Repugnant!
The poor and powerless suffer as they must.