Why are 20th century paintings often separated from previous era paintings (Pre-history to 19th century)? Do people really view 20th century art as non-canon in art history? Are they just so bad?
They had to separate it because comparing a Rothko to a Rembrandt exposes that the emperor has no clothes. 20th century was the first time art stopped being a skill and became a philosophy seminar where the inside joke is on the buyer.
Because earlier eras moved in relatively slower stylistic shifts.
>>17985847>where the inside joke is on the buyersee also - the statue of nigger sucking his own dick
I fucking hate modern art. They're rebelling against the norm but the norm is beauty and taste. Ridiculous seeing shit like this in museums on display next to actual masterpieces that probably took dozens/hundreds of hours to create
>>17987620This is whats in the room next to that btw. They really think these two are comparable.
>>17987620> I fucking hate modern art.Most reddit opinion ever, NGL.
>>17988372seethe loser, the greats of the rennaissance are still remembered 5 centuries later while your overpriced scribbles will be completely forgotten
>>17987620There are tons of truly great pieces of modern art, the problem is the term conflates a whole load of styles just because they share a time period, giving the whole lot a bad name.
>>17989782I agree, it's not that good art isn't being made anymore, its just theres a lot of pathetically bad art being jerked off by pseuds now.
>>17986876This is actually pretty good, it represents something, the concept of a hug in a visually interesting way and it seems well-made.
>>17987620>>17989782I had the misfortune to visit a couple of pretentious contemporary art galleries and the art pretty much falls into either of these categories:- barely recognizable human figures with few lines, kind of like a small child would try drawing cartoon characters. I have no idea why these are popular. I have no idea why anyone likes these.- a depiction of the female body but it's super gross, this is for art critics to swoon about how brave a statement it is about oppresive beauty standards that was just as transgressive as the last 10000 identical art pieces.- some completely abstract geometric shapes and colors, or sometimes just a gradient, or a line through the canvas, this is for art nerds to basedface about the composition, they will bring up geometry and ratios and pretend to know math when they see them- some object that looks interestingly designed, like "here is a kettle but look we put pictures of mouths all over its surface", still wouldn't put it in a museum though just a souvenir shop- statues that either look like debris or a random squiggly shape
