Comment by mmooss

Look at the incredible amount of art dismissed by this ideology: Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Rothko, Pollack, Coltrane, Lou Reed, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, James Joyce, almost all of literature, centuries of genres in every field. Hemingway might agree, but didn't really live it out past a certain point.

By its argument, people in wartorn nightmares should be making 'great art': Gaza, eastern Congo, etc. The most violent parts of the wealthy world should be where 'great art' comes from.

> there really isn't anything like the art of the past made today

Little is made like it was in the past, thankfully. It's not like it used to be. The world changes.

> As an artist I was invited to a much vaunted exhibition in Venice itself recently.

I think you'll need to convince people of that claim, especially given the unsophisticated old cliches expressed in this thread which don't seem to reflect much understanding.

> consisted of a woman sitting in urine

For example, that's all you understood.