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comment by Spindel
Spindel  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did you ever say "I could do that" when looking at some modern art?

WARNING the following post is extreamly opinionated and might offend you. Sensitive readers should refrain from reading the following post.

I could do that and your counter argument "why didn't you?" is pointless.

I don't say "I could do that" out of jealousy for a missed opportunity of income. I say it because I really could do that but chose not to, because it is pointless.

Of course hipsters/cultural elite try to see some hidden meaning in art like that to appear better and above the mob of uneducated pesants.

My daughter made a painting (that I have saved), when she was 10 months old, that would probably get raving reviews among people that claim crap like this is art (as long as they don't know it's made by an infant). I save that painting and hang it on the wall, because it is my daughters first painting. Not because it has some form of intristic artistic value or deep hidden meaning with deep emotions behind each stroke of paint.

BTW wasn't it some guy that not long ago was hailed as a genius for hos abstract paintings just to fall from grace a couple of months later when it turned out all of hos work was made by his 4 year old daughter/nice. Suddenly all the paintings went from being haild as genious to worthless doodles by a child. Gives so much respect for the people that "understand" this type of art...

So yes, I can do that. What I can't do is a still of a banana that remotley resembels a banana.

/rant