The Modern Trends in Art
To be honest, recently I am becoming a witness of something I cannot completely agree with. The previous decades were full of art exhibitions just like nowadays, people from the world of art used to fascinate us with stunning paintings or sculptures of writing works - personally I have gone to some of the best galleries in the world and I must admit what I have seen there is truely remarkable, amazing, almost unbelievable that it was created by the hands of a human being.
However, recently I attended an exhibition ( not to mention the name and the place since I do not really want to influence people with different interests from mine) that totally disappointed me - I saw no beauty, no magnificence, no inspiration in their exhibition stands - and that was announced to be “modern art”. The paintings were mainly scratches that had no meaning at all no matter how intense was the use of the word “abstract”, the scultures were only composed of metal cables with no distinguisged form and thank god there were no pieces of literature.
What bothers me is what happens with the modern art? Are really “abstract”works worthy of attention and “breathtaking”prices? To me, everyone would be able to create a painting and claim it to be a masterpiece only because it wears the label “abstract”, and the sculptures I saw even I can create with my coffee maker and couple of network cables - where is the beauty, where is the fascination? If I see a Picasso painting I won’t think for ages what is painted, or if a see a sculpture from ancient rome, I won’t need a “modern art”dictionary to understand what has been made. What is happening with the modern art - my answer is that we gave too much freedom of expression in art so simple work by children and masterpieces of great artists have now become equal, the art is getting faceless and just labeled as “modern”expression of the thought.
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