Today I went to the Pompidou to look at some contemporary art for the first (and most likely only) time. I kept an open mind and I was even interested by a few pieces, but I can't lie - I am so not into modern art. Some of it is laughable, some is a little creative, and most of it is just uninteresting to me. I truly
feel awe and joy and sadness when I look at paintings by Botticelli, da Vinci, Caravaggio, Carrucci, Regnault, or Giovanni Pietro Rizzolo. I get physically captured by Bouguerean's
Dante et Virgile aux Enfers. I actually get pretty depressed when I examine sculptures by Michelangelo, Rodin (
God I love Rodin), or Bosio, because their work is so exquisite and takes so much talent.
This, on the other hand, inspires nothing in me:
Let's take a look, shall we?
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| Laughable... |
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| Same material, same ability to make ripples and smooth surfaces... I guess I can respect the contemporary one, but I just don't understand |
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| Ha...ha...ha |
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| It makes me sad |
I don't know... I tried. I spent about 3 hours at Pompidou studying contemporary art. I couldn't even bring myself to take pictures of the entire floor of cubism, because I'm so unbelievably uninterested. Hate me if you like, but I just don't like Picasso's work. Cubism = mehh. I feel like classic artists had/have so much more talent. I personally don't think that an entire canvas painted black or some strangely shaped furniture deserves the same respect. I suppose if contemporary pieces makes you
feel something or inspires something in you, then they are art.
Here are a few that I did enjoy:
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| Soul trainnnn |
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| Not sure why, but I felt emotions when I looked at this. Boom. Art. |
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| This doesn't require a ridiculous amount of skill, and perhaps it's just media/culture brainwashing me, but I do like Andy Warhol... |
So there we go. I love classic art from the 16th, 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. I love the Renaissance, I love Romanticism, I love sculptures by the masters. I just am not very inspired by modern art. I'm utterly uninspired by cubism. I have put my opinion on contemporary art onto the internet. Part of me expects furious internet-ites to attack me, but hey, why else would you have a blog?
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