Nature’s Thought Forest

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God I’m going on this rant again because people make me so mad about it. I hate people who claim that modern art is stupid and so easy and that art has devolved and look at the world and go “how did we go from amazing portraits to this stupid shit” becuase they are just wrong!! Like they fundentally get the facts wrong and it upsets me so much. 99/100 times these people have never actually set foot in an actual modern art exhibition and are looking at contemporary art. I say that because it’s an important distinction!! Modern art is often confused with contemporary art (cause people use the terms interchangeably) but modern art has no actual definition. Most of the art people get pissed off about is contemporary art and honestly I think it’s so fucking stupid. Now do I like a lot of contemporary art? Fuck no as an art student I lowkey hate it and personally dont like heavy levels of abstraction, but just because I don’t like it personally doesn’t mean I don’t see the value in their pieces. Art went through a major shift in the late 1800’s and basically the entire 20th century because of this funny little invention called the camera. People wanna know why there aren’t as many realist oli paintings anymore? Because you can capture a persons likeness with a fucking camera fast and cheaper. Before this era art was supposed to be realistic, art wasn’t really about feelings, we really only start to see it transform from realism to feelings durring the impressionist movement which also coensides with the fucking invention of the camera. Yes they still were putting feeling into the baroque and rennisance paintings but that wasn’t the main fucking point, the point was realism and portraits, that’s how you made money. Now come into the 20th century and the camera becomes so fucking popular artist can’t really make money on portraiture the same way they used to. So now art had to show why it had value beyond just being a visual representation of our world. That’s why you get all this abstract shit. It’s important to be there because artists were trying so many different things. Also people treat the abstract shit as if it’s the only things in those fucking galleries when it’s fucking not! I’m using the Art Instatie of Chicago here because it’s the gallery I have the most experience with but I’m the modern wing of the AIC you can go from looking at a Jackson pollok splatter painting and a really abstract drawing of the front of the AIC to a beautiful Dali oil painting in a matter of moments. That’s why I’m saying there is no degradation of art, it’s a bullshit idea that lowkey makes you sounds like a n*zi. Further more, if you actually went to a modern exhibition (that has no theme cause often times exhibitions will only want certain kinds of art) you would be able to see cool shit like Renaissance style portraiture of chickens (real thing I saw Chicago EXPO earlier this year). So yeah please stop hating on modern art if you don’t fucking understand and remember even if you don’t like it asthetically it doesn’t mean that it should have a place.