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The direction of some postmodern art today scares me. I dunno how many of you reside around new york, but if you were able to see this years Whitney Biennial, you'll know what I mean. I think there are two main sectors of postmodern art today- that which is effective and is successful through its use of unconventional materials.. and that which was better off as raw material.
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I saw the WACK! show...one room was filled with 1980s porn magazines and layouts...
anyway back to my earlier thought. Artists today are continually exploring, and with exploration you can both the good and bad...the successes and the failures. In the work that is getting produced nowadays, you don't see a whole lot of "traditional" media, i.e. oil paintings, watercolors, etc. Well I take that back...it may be being produced, but it's not what's "in demand" in the world of art galleries and curators. New media is where it's at.
Back to the Whitney Biennial, a reoccurring theme within the show was artists using raw building materials and stuff you would normally see used within a construction site. Those kinda things are not typically seen in the context of "high art". A lot of artists used trash in their work as well. Some did it effectively, others...it just still looked like trash.
As technology develops and new processes become available to artists, there is a lot of experimentation in the work we see today. Artists are pushing away from what was typically seen as acceptable or traditional. As a result, there's a lot of "weird" stuff out there that we're not used to. Some of it is art. Some of it is just poor decisions. Who gets to decide?
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