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Anonymoustard t1_iu4pjym wrote

So my cranky grandpa was right that you could hang modem at upside down and nobody would notice, hmmm.

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JakeArvizu t1_iu5g9kp wrote

It's funny because this "modern" art is probably just as old as your Grandpa.

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Patsfan618 t1_iu5pdyb wrote

Modern, in this case, refers to a style or era of art that was produced between the 1860's and 1970's.

Today's art "era" would be considered the postmodern or contemporary

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JakeArvizu t1_iu5xme5 wrote

No I know. I'm just commenting that it's interesting people still can't let it go. Like this art has now existed for like a century and you still have people who "don't get it".

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Hot_Outlandishness55 t1_iuafjpv wrote

Good point. There are these weird people that don't even know if it's up or down. Including everyone who stepped inside MoMA.

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JakeArvizu t1_iuaxxxq wrote

Now there's these weird people who care so much whether it's up or down. It's art, it's there to invoke emotion. If you don't like it who cares move on lol. People get so worked up over modern art style.

Put it this way If say you bought a really nice red shirt, but it was actually a mistake the designer intended for it to be blue. Does that mean you're stupid to like the shirt or anyone else who did?

The painting is simplistic lines, the orientation while part of it's composition is obviously easy to mistake. Doesn't somehow now make the work meaningless or stupid. My favorite painting is Jackson Pollock's August rhythm. You could probably flip it in any orientation I would honestly not be able to tell the difference.

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primejanus t1_iu6ar81 wrote

It gets even better. There have been a few occasions in which a janitor has mistakenly thrown out modern art because they confused it for actual trash

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Lord_Aldrich t1_iu9hnky wrote

In the artist's defense that piece was more of a sculpture that was literally made of trash, and was supposed to be a commentary on consumerism. So the janitor throwing it away basically just made it into a performance art piece.

The artist was pissed tho, so yeah, maybe it was just a shit piece, lol

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mynameisalso t1_iu51hhj wrote

Someone noticed.

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