Modern Art Nonsense vs. The Library of Congress

Contrasting the crap in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. with the amazing architecture of the Library of Congress.

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• modern
• abstract
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• museum
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• washington
• d.c.
• library
• congress
• architecture
• ayn
• rand
• objectivism

[Fuwuttevas]

@isolateslowfaults I like most of what you are saying even though Warhol was also overrated. Innovation for the sake of innovation becomes the very thing it's trying to avoid. It's stagnant. Here is an idea. Stop focusing on the artist and focus on the art. If you looked at Warhol's monroe tribute without knowing who warhol or monroe was, would you care? Of course not. REAL ART takes REAL WORK. It is NOT easily replicated. Great artist have devoted their lives to it.

[chandru1103]

Nice degree, that's about all you have. Doesn't it suck knowing you will never make anything of yourself because you are unable to step outside of your limited views of art and culture and have an original thought process?

[lysol5555]

Criteria for arts I come up with- all art should pass these criteria, like all scientific research should adhere to scientific method. Please feel free to help me improve this.

1) Hard to replicate

2) Creative- original thing that has value, purpose, and demonstrates idea

3) Time investment in technique and knowledge

[MsMaggieOC]

I totally agree with you. Right there with you. modern art is a purposeful assault on culture. It's one of the attempts to dumb down society and degrade the masses into uncultured pigs.

[rossini55]

@ScrapedfromSealings Why cant we have 'conceptual literature' where books are just filled with jumbled letters that have no meaning or sense at all. Or perhaps a book with only one letter in it, or just filled with the same letter 1,000s of times? Would YOU read or even buy one? Would you defend it as good literature? Is that not 'challenging preconceptions' about language and the meaning of words?

[rossini55]

@ScrapedfromSealings Naive bunkum!! Comments like that provide cover for the Crap 'Art' Establishment to keep producing such bollocks, while people with REAL skills get sidelined as old-fashioned or traditionalists.

[rossini55]

@lysol5555 Yeah but those NBA players actually have REAL SKILL. Ever heard of a 'conceptual' NBA player?

[rossini55]

Dear Madam, I fully agree. Modern Art is bollocks!! We in the UK have the Turner prize once a year, and each time some meaningless trendy twit seems to win it with the most inane piece of crap ever conceived. The REAL William Turner would be horrified to see what his good name is now associated with. That along with Tracey Emin being chosen as the RA Professor of Drawing just makes me cringe and if I hear another thing about Damien Hirts I will scream AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!

[Rationalific]

@lysol5555 We're completely on the same page.

[KhagarBalugrak]

I made a piece of "modern art" as a joke. It was a paper with "Please scroll down slowly to the bottom of the page" on the top and "Please scroll up slowly to the top of the page" on the bottom. Hence, it was infinite. And hopefully a good way to make fun of modern art.

Modern art is variously: creepy, suggestive, ugly, stale, and/or boring. It is shit, and I think your plan consisting of the decapitated dog penis and a President in effagy is a wonderful idea.

[lysol5555]

@Rationalific exactly, when will people realize it?(or maybe they do, but they are unprincipled liars). The unfortunate thing is that these artists are proud of their technical incompetency. When every I talk about modern art, I get angry because I think these "artists" are nothing but con-man and scammers

[Rationalific]

@lysol5555 I agree. GOOD art is done well. What you see right at the beginning of this video are a bunch of circles and lines...which anyone can do. Take a look at old art from 100+ years ago, as well as things like video games such as Battlefield 3, and you'll find some amazing stuff that's done extremely well by experts who practiced for years - copying methods from others, I might add - and expanding on them to get that far. Everything in this museum is utter nonsense.