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achughes  ·  4193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Great Art in Ugly Rooms

Best take I've heard on modern art from the NC Museum of Art:

"I could have done that! Yea but you didn't"





Kaius  ·  4193 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh yea he 'discovered' his approach and made it famous. I don't mean to say that he didn't deserve his success, I just think that on a skill level I look at Manet for example and I know I could never produce something like it.

achughes  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most of the early modernist and people like pollock were trained to paint in a realist style, but whats the point? Artistically there really isn't anything new to discover by painting another Manet.