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user-inactivated  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why is Modern Art so Bad?

That's one very big point I considered putting in my first comment, but decided not to for the sake of what brevity I could muster. All sorts of art movements have all been about rejecting the establishment, trying strange new forms, new interpretations. My favorite transition point from classical to modern art is expressionism and futurism. Yeah, some of it's clunky, but it's demonstrative of an entirely different approach.

Then, of course, there are the post-modernist types who just like to f*ck with people and perversely subvert the paradigm (Andy Warhol being one of the first hugely popular ones).