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Old 05-24-2009, 07:43 PM
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Default Re: Modern art ... again

People don’t get modern art for a variety of reasons.

Many people are sincerely puzzled as to why non-representational art is meaningful. Such people, having been educated to the idea that “true art” consists in realistic rendering of objects, places and people in the external world, are put off by the departure of non-representational artworks from the norm with which they have been inculcated.

But such people are reachable; they are educable. Their bafflement is sincere, and generally, such people are open to the idea that they may lack knowledge about modern art, and they are open to learning more about it.

A useful analogy here is mathematics. Goliath may attest to the notion that math is aesthetic. But the mathematical form of art is closed off to those who haven’t been educated about math. But people who are educable, who are sincerely open to learning, can learn about math and discover the aesthetic experience that it affords.

Other people are aggressively ignorant and not open to education. These people, typically, are narcissistic know-it-alls. They are bullies, blockheads and blowhards. They believe that they already possess all knowledge, and that anything that they don’t already know about is not worth knowing. Very often such people are in the thrall of bizarre, narcissistic fantasies — for instance, they might believe (as a purely hypothetical example) that they are “special” and that their special nature entitles them to rape and enslave girls.

With good reason, we call such people “retards.”

When it comes to modern art, retards will rely on a few stereotypical arguments. One such argument is that anyone who writes approvingly about modern art is “pretentious.” This stands to reason, if you think about it. After all, retards are know-it-alls. They think that they know everything, and that everything that they do not know, is not worth knowing. Hence it follows, from their own narcissistic point of view, that anyone who talks about something outside their (limited) knowledge base is only “pretending” to knowledge, and hence is pretentious.

Retards who don’t know anything about modern art will Google (if they actually have mastered search engines) information that they think will support their viewpoint. They may, for example, discover that chimpanzees paint pictures. Had they bothered to Google further, they would discover that
Oh, this is surprising! Chimps and elephants paint pictures! Chimps also talk to other chimps, and elephants talk to other elephants. Even ants talk to one another. Probably very few chimps, elephants or ants dream of raping and enslaving their con-specifics, but then, very few, if any, chimps, elephants or ants are retards.

In a future post I’ll talk about the paintings of chimps, elephants, Mondrian and Picasso.
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