I think either my mind was ment for a 13th knight or i was one in a past life, i am obsesed with history, old wars and old cultures, and as a result is dislike most this modern.
An example is modern art, its one of my pet peeves, I mean what ever happened to just painting a beautiful seen or a portrait in mono colours.
I was at a modern art show yesterday and the stuff was so werid, like stacked blocks and shapes thrown togeather. Maybe other modern people find that stuff interesting but i sure as hell dont.
Take Van Gogh for instance, one of my favourate.
Compaired to an example of modern art
I mean come on, a four year old could draw this.
Does anyone else feel this way? Or am i just weird….
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The potato eaters is my fave van gogh!
I could go through the whole ethics etc of modern art with u but it would be tedious and boring. Instead I will point out that van gogh was not appreciated in his lifetime and died a poor starved artist. Nostalgia is a powerful tool in imposing meaning! You should watch the woody Allen film midnight in Paris, it’s great and it’s all about wanting to be born in a different time!
That 12 triangles picture. Is it a dog with flippers for feet?
I feel the same way a lot. So no, you’re not weird. xD
@lucy, i believe its supposed to be a horse. its offical title is “horsey”.
@madetofade, maybe your just weird too, well atleast were not alone. 🙂
@one_day, yes he died poor but thats because he squanded all his money, he was well paid for his works, but compaired to da vinci, yes he was very much underappreciated.
I also often feel this way. And I would likely have been born a different gender too. Because I feel like I should be a knight, or just plain someone who others look up to, and I can be very chivalrous….that and I’m obsessed with swords and medieval weaponry. More Japanese medieval though, so like katanas and such. Unfortunately, I live where really nobody needs or wants those things. And I agree that a lot of ‘modern’ art totally sucks. I especially like art from the Edo period. Or of that style.
@Emotionlessandlost, i love jap history, and edo is defo one of my favourate periods of art and war. I have a wakizashi on my wall, its a real jap sword, my brother got it for me from a real japanese blacksmith, it was made the same way samurai swords were made.
Its by far the coolest thing i own.
Why a different gender if you dont mind me asking?
@Unique; Sounds like a 4 year old could have named it too. 🙂
Are u sure? I don’t think so van g never got recognition that he deserved inhis lifetime. He started to make a name in the last year of his life, but by then he was sick and mad. When he died, that when his work became valuable. He had a poor upbringig that is what ‘the potato eaters’ is about
Seriously check out the woody movie though it was made for u
@one_day, yes im sure he was never poor, he only started painting in his late twenties, before that worked in art dealers and he used to teach art, it was when he became a missionary that created his first work of art “potato eaters”. he was living in south of france when he died of a gun shot wound. Im pretty sure he wasnt destitue at the time. But i could be wrong so dont quote me.
But thats what i remember from when i studied him.
Peace 🙂
Ok i will watch it, i promise.
Hmmm I don’t think that’s true. Yes he ha a lot of art connections but they were just art connections and a lot of the ‘work’ he did was unpaid. Poverty is a major theme in his early work. He was only prolific for about 3 years? Def not long enough to become known. Anyway the main point was that people didn’t understand or appreciate him during his lifetime – that I am sure of. He wasn’t known until after he died. Going back to the original point of the post – it’s hard to appreciate art in the time it was created. Hindsight is 20 20
@one_day, sorry i dont want to argue i just to clear up a few things, i agree his work wasnt aprecated by the masses until after he died, but he did sell some of his works while in france,thats what kept him afloat, and yes he did most of his best work in his final too years, and it was when he was missionary in belgium in a poor mining village for 4 or 5 years is where he did those poverty works i think.
Just imagion what he could have done if he didnt die, sad really… 🙁
Yeah its tedious to argue since neither of us has the wrong information, just a different bias of what constitutes ‘poor’.
The sad thing is we have the tendency to romanticize the past and demonise the present. Vg was brilliant, mad and shuned by his society. If he were alive now he would be a junkie on the street and nobody would even notice if he died. I guess that’s why I have this obsession with findin the flowers that grow in the cracks of dirt. They so easily get trampled.
I look a life in a similar way, i try not demonise all of the present, i still love nature and hiking and photography and architecture, the new your skyline for example is quite a sight.
I guess i just feel that some stuff is forced to “look modern” of you know what mean. Like why couldnt the horse painting just have a painting of a real horse.
Lol well in this age of technology if u wanted a pic of a horse u would take a photo. Modern artists know they can’t compete with the realism a photo has therefore they choose not to try. The horse pic isdelibrately niave and childlike, given by the name horsey. Could actually be a satire of modern art, a statement that it all looks like childrens work! But yeah I don’t really like it either there not much to go on. There are very few gems in the arts scene who shine through this isn’t one of them. I think in this day a lot of fine artists are rich kids who’s parents put them through art school and have nothing really to say.
I feel like I could have been happier in the 80s and so do some of my friends. Everything seems amazing from back then- the music, the clothes, the movies, the lack of reliance on technology… Everything, really.
@one_day Your words are poignant as always. And i agree 100%. Pictures a ton more detailed and perhaps more beautiful visually, but i look for meaning behind someones painting, how thay felt when they did it, how long it took, what it ment to them.
Anyone can click a camera, that being said it no less an art form, i just prefer paintings.
I guess historical art will just have to suffice. 🙂
I also prefer paintings because I like texture that is why van gogh is one of my favorites. I didn’t start to appreciate modern art until I saw good modern art Whig is quite rare… In Bordeaux and stockholm… Nothing in AUS… Cubics were my fave era (cubism is all about editing!) but even that gets a bit boring and samey. Anyway I really gotta get back to work pleasure as always
Haha I feel bad for the person who did the 4 year old drawinq.I freakinq love history but I’m happy I was born In this aqe.
I can strongly relate to this concept, although I more associate myself with Three kingdoms China and warring states Japan. I feel like the priority of values in modern society are nothing like my own. It gets on my nerves sometimes.