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I love modern art
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Heck yeah. Though I share concerns about the monetary side of the art world, I totally agree. Modern art (like all art) is fun and neat and philosophical.
I frequently find people who criticise this the pretentiousness of the art world have rarely ever gone to a gallery and immersed themselves in it. My advice to those people is try it! Read a bit about the artist and the movement and the context of the piece, and though you'll absolutely see some hacks and bougie nothingness and boring stuff, you'll also typically find something you can understand and/or relate to.
I actually only very recently discovered how dark, depressing and complicatedly critical 'pop art' is, after always thinking it was just silly colours and copies of things. I took short browse through a pop-art section of a gallery expecting happy soup cans and came out feeling extremely uncomfortable.
The "art world" is elitist gatekeepers for the most part and always has been. My wife is an artist so I've heard her analysis on it plenty.
95% of getting art into the "art world" is connections, and the other 5% is making up absolute bullshit about the piece. The "art world" doesn't actually like new things, for the most part, unless it comes from someone who's already in "the art world." (Famous example: huge backlash to R. Mutt's La Fontaine, frequently attributed to Marcel Duchamp but actually created by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven)
The overwhelming majority of people who go to art school and enter the "art world" are trust fund kids whose trust fund had a stipulation that they needed to go to college.
The problem is capitalism, but we shouldn't pretend like the "art world" isn't the same big bourgeois club as you see in other institutions. Of course it's pretentious. And of course their taste is reactionary.
Edit: sorry if you're doing a bit and I missed it, that soup-cans comment makes me think this is a copypasta I'm not familiar with
I am not doing a bit. But I do think perhaps we're talking across purposes with the term 'art world', as I don't disagree with most of what you say either. By "art world" I just mean all of art and the culture around it, rather than the very small subset that gets put on a pedestal or primarily caters to the bourgeois. My partner is also an artist so I've also heard her analysis on it plenty.
I'm not sure what came across as ungenuine about ye ol' soup cans, I was just trying to share a genuine experience.
Ohhh gotcha, totally agree then. "World of art" vs "Art World(tm)" I guess lol. Yeah, definitely agree that there's a lot of great stuff out in the world of art if you're looking beyond the highly curated fancy galleries and museums and stuff. One of my favorites was a gallery that was set up in an old warehouse in New Orleans far from the touristy areas, iirc it was curated by some local graffiti artists and had a bunch of really cool pieces in it — a lot of it dealt with the Katrina aftermath, acab, and racial justice and the pieces were rad as hell. Lots of bright colors and cartoony styles with heavy street art influence. There was an installation piece that was someone's living room displaying the water level that it got to when the levees broke, that one really stuck with me even though this was a decade ago. Like, is a living room art? Yeah, it definitely can be.
I missed an operative word in your comment and thought you were talking about Warhol's soup cans instead of, yknow, literally any other pop art. Sorry comrade!
Heck yeah, once again I mostly agree, and I'm already envious of you getting to see those things. No worries!