The degeneration of art:
This is “Royal Red and Blue” by Mark Rothko. It's supposed to be worth about $75 million.
I look at that and think: I could have done that. A child could have done that. It is a simple pattern that has no discernible emotional meaning as far as I am concerned. It produces no emotional reaction other than disgust at the decadence of an art world that sells such stuff (and even worse) at such prices. I'm sure some art critic could come up with a quite elaborate rationalization, but it would be ridiculous. I just thought of something: maybe the artist did have a certain meaning in mind - to create in the viewer the impression of meaninglessness and emptiness. He succeeded at that and would be creative genius if it weren't that legions of previous modern and contemporary artists have already gone there and done that.
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This is Gainsborough's "Blue Boy". To see the original in person is to gaze into the eyes of a marvelous artifice that creates the impression of a living being from a past era dead and gone looking out at you.
Case closed.
![[Image: CThomas_Gainsborough_-_The_Blue_Boy_The_...6x1049.jpg]](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/08/CThomas_Gainsborough_-_The_Blue_Boy_The_Huntington_Library_San_Marino_L._A.-696x1049.jpg)
(This post was last modified: 2019-01-23, 03:11 AM by nbtruthman.)
This is “Royal Red and Blue” by Mark Rothko. It's supposed to be worth about $75 million.
I look at that and think: I could have done that. A child could have done that. It is a simple pattern that has no discernible emotional meaning as far as I am concerned. It produces no emotional reaction other than disgust at the decadence of an art world that sells such stuff (and even worse) at such prices. I'm sure some art critic could come up with a quite elaborate rationalization, but it would be ridiculous. I just thought of something: maybe the artist did have a certain meaning in mind - to create in the viewer the impression of meaninglessness and emptiness. He succeeded at that and would be creative genius if it weren't that legions of previous modern and contemporary artists have already gone there and done that.
This is Gainsborough's "Blue Boy". To see the original in person is to gaze into the eyes of a marvelous artifice that creates the impression of a living being from a past era dead and gone looking out at you.
Case closed.
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