Comment by syngrog66
3 years ago
I have had the "Emperor wears no clothes" reaction to much of so-called modern art. Much of it seemed like gaslighting or sh*t tests for snobs obsessed with class signalling and Having The Right Connections or Causes. Rather than a demonstration of any real masterful skill, rare talent or artifact of relentless practice or an eye-for-perfection, of decades-long study or trial-and-error.
I mean compare a random surviving Da Vinci against the stereotypical "Man in Box" install circa 2005 NYC (say a cheap red string tied between two posts, while the audience listens to musak -- to give a dumb exemplar of the type of thing I've heard decribed as Modern Art.)
Lots of children are telling the (elite) crowd the emporor is naked but they want to continue pretending so hard they wont budge.
It is a power move to go around naked pretending to wear cloths and get away with it.
The emporor in the story was fooled. The commoners played along with the emporor's cloths but they openly mock modern art.
The current situation is more of an injoke to mess with commoners.
Compare modern architecture that is nice inside but look horrible for the commoners looking at it from the outside.