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Mr Mephisto, your enthusiasm for the cannonical academic and high-culture tradition of modern and contemporary art is noteworthy, but it is apparent it is not compelling.
My previous paragraph:
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Apparently many, if not most, of the people responding don’t accept this explanation of things artistic. That’s because the academic tradition of art galleries, museums, art critics, and the modern and contemporary artists who mine that vein haven’t been particularly successful at involving the majority of the population in their version of “art.”
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…is intended as a condemnation of the elitist and, in my opinion, irrelevant arguments you have been proffering here. It tends to push this thread toward having the overall feel of a high-brow browbeating and it does invite flaming. I commend the other posters for not turning it into a flame-fest.
Any art which fails to engage viewers and audiences is a failed art. The artistic expressions which you are instistent upon foisting upon us here are some of the consumate failures of Modernism.
You are veering toward accusatory remarks – the implication being the audience for these works is somehow at fault for having zero appreciation of them. The simple fact is that it is the artists who have failed their audience. They have committed the sin of hubris and sold out their connection to their audience to the highest bidder. This art is elitist. It’s no wonder that most people abhor it.
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