modern art

abstract art

Henri Matisse

munchausen syndrome

Andy Warhol

Jackson Pollock

Joan Miro

Pablo Picasso

Wassily Kandinsky

Marc Chagall

light bulb joke

museum

one-liner

performance art

Christmas tree

butt plug

pipe

representation

Rene Magritte

is able to change morals... it is able to lower the threshold of what is terrible, shocking, painful, or embarrassing. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

is no reason to paint pictures that make sense in a world today which makes no sense.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do'

is not so much something in our art as something in our lives.

not so much something in our art as something in our lives.

is the reflection of our own times. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves. (Okakura, Kakuzo)

is the result of imagination without skill, just as skill without imagination is craftsmanship, which gives us wickerwork picnic baskets.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard

is where you paint on canvas, wipe off your brushes with a rag, and then sell the rag.

Modern art is where you paint on canvas, wipe off your brushes with a rag, and then sell the rag.

is easy enough to understand: if it bangs on a wall, it's a painting... if you can walk around it, it's a sculpture.

It's not hard to understand modern art: if it bangs on a wall, it's a painting... if you can walk around it, it's a sculpture.

is a form of art whose history is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public..

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

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modern art