Modernism did many things from naturalism and impressionist. It's more what your eye sees than what is actually there. Post-modernism reshapes that even more."
Mr. Ziller was the right man to visit the Museum of Modern Art with. He knew art, how it related to the world historically and with relation to other mediums; literature and architecture and screenwriting. I couldn't help, however, think that most of everything in this museum was a bunch of crap. 10 years ago, at the Minneapolis Walker Modern Art Museum, my former friend, Brown U. Literature Professor Aaron Kubin explained that, "Its not that no one else can do it, it's the fact that it is done at all that makes it art!"
I have always disagreed with this idea, and don't think that any amount of explanation should make art anything more than it is, or try to elevate it beyond what it should be. To me, art is expression, and it should be judged on its quality, its ability to set off the emotions of an individual viewer or listener. It seems that through all these over-complicated movements ands explanations, we have "sloppied" our art into being unreachable; its almost an expression against commercialism and marketeering; but its extremism makes it equally superfluous. In fact, the only art forms today that seem to stay true to art are movies and music.
Painting has become abstract without aesthetics, sculpture lives in its own past, photography leads every photographer to the same compositional conclusion, architechture is petty and almost never abides by fundamental aesthetic laws. Art has too many craftsmen, and a hundred times more people who admire craftsmanship as artistry. All these overturned chairs with bicycle wheels and scribbly sketches of naked people gave me a headache, and after all, the next morning I was to wake at 5:00 for an early morning trip to Central Park.
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