I Get Mail from Sensitive Souls
An unparagraphed outpouring, edited for brevity:
It saddens all that I believe is truly good so deeply to see such ignorant and violently senseless comments made out of selfishness and an inability to think beyond an immediate and primitive reaction… But how do you address a flood of ignorance, a torrent of hatred and insecurity? How do you speak to the angry voices with pitchforks and torches? You are the witch hunters and you project your own inadequacies onto others without any self-critical thought or capacity for ideas outside of your own selfishness. Good art causes us to ask questions of ourselves and the reason you hate this art is because you refuse to ask yourself any meaningful questions… Your soul will remain undeveloped and your life without meaning if you allow your ignorance to control you. In art, as in life, you must ask yourself the most important question: why? And ask it honestly. Give yourself some time. And for most of you, a lot of time.
You see, we mustn’t laugh at the vanity of substandard artists. Alas, we can only guess at the identity of the commenter.
Umm, canon ^ (why I’m not an art critic)
Fiend’s Brave Victim
most historical modern art displayed in the major galleries of the world—no matter how ‘conceptual’—has made it into the canon for good reason.
Can we expect any kind of evidence for this assertion, or are you just planning on putting it out there as a reminder for myself and others here to humble ourselves before the great minds of the age who have already decreed what kinds of art can and can’t be criticised?
Do tell.
Steve2: Steveageddon — I don’t have animation software, but I hope someone who does renders your script in glorious cartoon format.
See http://www.muvizu.com/
There is also access to the underlying software itself.
. . . . most historical modern art displayed in the major galleries of the world—no matter how ‘conceptual’—has made it into the cannon for good reason.
Yes, there is excellent modern art and it does get admired. I would argue that the reason to not bother with fitting the rest into a cannon, or bonfire, or drive something over it, is that I am lazy . . . and just happen to be bloody busy anyway.
It’s just Soooo much easier—and basically much more efficient anyay—to just ignore the ineptly done stuff . . .