Why Is Modern Art so Bad? With Will Witt | Man on the Street
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2019
- Will Witt heads to the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles to ask people their opinions on his "artwork" and whether they think there should be standards for judging modern art. Check it out!
"Does it make you feel any type of way?"
"Uh... Confused?"
Give that kid a medal
And he was trying to be polite!🤣 You could see what he really thought of it!
We can see clearly number of years spent under brutal marxist indoctrination bring severe changes in the slave personality... Youngsters are still healthy - rescue them from commiefornia while there is still hope for them!
And the smaller child shrugged. The police officer and the kids were honest!
He hasn't been fully indoctrinated yet.
😆 the kids got the best and most honest few words
The officer was the only one who go it right. Scribbles
J Weis nope the boy too
@@miriamschiro1773 Well a child was given. But there you have it!
Emperors New Clothes anyone?
And then she went on to say there should be no standards in art, “especially today”. 🤦♂️
@@BennyLindo yep, the leftist programming snuffed out her real feelings.
"Straight up symbolic." 😂
I think the beanie fooled them all.
Megan Holley had too
Will: "this is total crap"
2year old kid that painted the canvas: 😭
Time to end everybody gets a trophy. One of the best learning lessons of my life was on a camping trip when I was younger. My Uncle brought a family friend's kid along with us and his artistic skills were far superior to my abilities at the time, and this hurt my feelings because it caught my Uncle's attention, whom I greatly looked up to. My Uncle sat me down and told me that even though I may be able to surpass others skills with hard work and determination, there will always be those in life that no matter what, will be better at something than me. Take pride in what you're good at, but be humbled knowing that there are always others that may be better than you are at something in life.
So, how is the kid going to become better if we keep telling him he is flawless?
y'all are overthinking a joke no offense.
the comment never implied that the 2 year old should be rewarded/praised for drawing crap (they were likely told to draw like crap anyways). The joke was the fact that by calling the art crap, he's indirectly insulting the 2 year olds. you know I hate explaining jokes but it seem to have flown over yalls head.
believe me, i hate leftism and modern art as much as anyone here, but y'all need to know when something is serious and when something is meant to be laughed at. the replies like these are ones that should be stated towards those that unironically believe that you shouldn't give criticism towards a toddlers art. as i mentioned, the 2 year olds were likely told to draw like crap so why make a big fuss about whether it should be praised/criticized? at the end of the day, it was meant to be crap and thus, it is crap. I highly doubt that the original commenter is even trying to defend the fact that it's crap.
The fake cover-up cough was the best! lmao
1:30 coughing on BS :)
@@50calBeowulf lol thanks. I should have done that in my comment.
As an artist I think modern art sucks. I HAVE STANDARDS
thank goodness there are still some that think so.
Stephanie Stockbridge, I'm not an artist by any stretch, but I sure know what looks good, what I'd buy, and what looks like it was finger painted by an enthusiastic two years old.....or somebody throwing globs of paint on a canvas and letting the dog swish it's tail through it.
I agree, LOL! same here!
As an artist I donot agree with you. But I agree there is alot of crap.
@stephanie stockbridge YES! Fun fact: Recently declassified documents reveal that modern art (and those goofy artists) were part of the C IA's psychological operation to convert our thinking about art and just about everything else. Everybody IS free to express themselves, but only true artists are skilled to create true art. It's the Left (meaning; anti-Americans wanting communism via socialism first) tearing away at everything in American life; standards, laws, rules, order, etc. The same folks who hate the tradition of family and patriarchy, painting it as inherently evil and therefore must be stopped. It really is rage against our independent and uniquely-created souls. These punks would not be alive with a microphone if it weren't for the civil structure and order of traditionally organized society. (But you probably know this!!)
Love the fact that Will Witt could barely keep from laughing.
Me too 😂
I thought "stay in character 😂" dude
It's hard not to laugh when you are feeding someone a bunch of BS and they are eating it up.
J A P A N E S E M A S C U L I N I T Y
1:28
“Really, it’s all crap” ... yup, that pretty much sums up the world of modern art.
critical-thought it’s ironic that you have that user name while spitting anti intellectualism
you probably could sell actually crap as modern art. just give it a mysterious name.
nipnop - I find it humorous that you equate modern art with the intellect. There is no irony, only a recognition of a segment of the art community that has regressed further back than the cave drawings and adolescent skills. Express your feelings, by all means, but do not pretend it is intellectualism.
critical-thought I don’t know anyone can believe that...
Have you like seen some modern art recently like Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Metaphysical painting, De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art, Minimalism, and Neo-Expressionism.
What do these lack that’s present in other art?
nipnop - I am no connoisseur, but I do wander the halls of some of the largest public galleries, and many of the smallest private galleries. Some few works are great, the vast majority of works are ... somewhat less than that. Moving an idea from the subjective or emotional realm into a physical representation is no small thing, and to do it well is a rare gift that few possess. Drawing some geometric shapes onto a white canvas is something any grade schooler can do. Throwing paint (or the brush) at a surface can be done by a monkey, and the result is just as relevant. Any child can scrawl something, and it often “looks better” than what I see on gallery walls. The great artists speak to more than themselves, regardless of classification or the opinion of a critic.
Still better than most of the garbage being sold as modern art.
Like a rock...A LITERAL ROCK!
Arnand: Not surprising hyperbolic commentary coming from a Nihilist, sir. lol.
"Those who know only their side of the debate know little of that." John Stewart Mill.
Smile; it sets off positive endorphins, even the most pessimistic can't control. Be well, Anand.
@@lesliesylvan sorry if my comment sounded naive. The keyword was "most". Definitely not all of the modern art is utter BS, but the things being put into exhibitions in the name of art truly makes one think.
@@anand.pandey My error, entirely, in not picking up on your keyword, "most." Unlike me to do so. Must re-read JS Mills again and show less zeal next time! ;) I retract my statement. lol Actually agree.
@@lesliesylvan no problem. It's all cool haha.
They are afraid to hurt peoples feelings.
Kindness is a virtue
Honesty is a virtue
Honesty serves no purpose when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
And kindness is weakness if misused.
@@Somethingshouldgohere It is not kind if u are keeping other people in delusion either. If it sucks, it sucks. Too many people are so afraid of hurting other peoples feeling that a lot of people think they're good when in reality they're nothing special and lead to a bunch of over confident bums who think they deserve everything under the sun. U want to be kind? Be honest, help them do something more realistic thats better catered for their strengths.
As an artist myself, I hate how I spend countless hours on my art, and not even get paid ten bucks for a decent, quality piece...
While people making art like this are getting famous and getting their art to sell for thousands.
omentey You haven’t seen the art I sell
To clarify, I have made more than “ten bucks for a decent, quality piece,” but some pieces, people just aren’t as interested in.
If you’ve ever been an artist, I’m sure you’d know the feeling of putting hours of work into a piece with few people noticing it, but when you put out another piece that didn’t take you as long, you get loads of positive feedback and people saying “WOW THAT IS SO GOOD”
It happens to every artist at least once.
Ahem, millions
I can understand your frustration. Some artists work on pieces with the accuracy and deliberateness down to the very millimeter and don’t even get recognized while some look like they painted some “modern art” while blindfolded and drunk and thief pieces sell for thousands... a real shame.
Most of the artists that get rich off of modern art actually became famous through realistic or other types.
"I feel like you're going back in to a different place." 😅😂😂😂
Yeah... childhood! 😂😂
Dennis Prager at the end... 😂😂😂😂😂😂
People don't realize they're being mocked. No, not everyone's expression has value.
@Fracking Saves What is your point? it shows that people are afraid of expressing their true feelings about what they see and hear or they've been so thoroughly conditioned as to think any kind of expression has value. They probably believe all cultures are equally valid as well.
Dagny Taggart what do you mean “value@
At least one lady was honest! It was hilarious watching the leftists pretend they liked it!
How do you know they were leftists?
And the kids. The kids were as brutally honest as always.
tinylilmatt So basically, you don’t. When you blame the left for something with not only no evidence, but that isn’t even political in the first place, it really uncovers how your bias clouds your critical thinking. But yes, they looked terrified, nothing to do with being polite.
asher leask
We know they’re leftists because they support relativism.
(They believe everything is subjective)
Plus the left isn’t just a n area of the political spectrum. Leftist ideas are present in religion, music, art, psychology, science, philosophy and many more fields.
Because it's not art to begin with- is the short answer. Not everyone is an artist. Even Picaso earned his initial reputation as a great artist by being able to actually draw and paint anything he wanted. He later switched to cubism, not out of laziness or incompetence, but because he saught new challenges and further evolution.
So yeah, period blood painting is not art.
They'll make paintings with used diapers next
@@warpnin3 or weed which you could also inhale to get extra sensations
@@hesha912 They won't find that groundbreaking and shocking enough😕🙄
Look up artist's shit by an itlaian artisy who put his feces on a can and sold them for millions of dollars
Picassos paintings are eyesores. Ugly af
How hard was it to hold that laughter in? Got me to laugh cough, cough!!
I think I'm going to have a heart attack after laughing sooo much!! 😂😂😂
I've been wondering why people actually like stuff like this. Modern art is crap. Change my mind
Another Conservative Commentator Money laundering
I hate modern art. But I guess it does create a thought exercise?
This is not modern art, it`s post modern art. Mind chanced?
Go search on Instagram. You'll be amazed what awesome painters show their work fo free. Btw I agree it's crap the paintings on this channel. Really no art at all.
Art.....is a man's name...Thank You.
It’s “the Emperor has no clothes” for the modern art world!
That's actually a great way to describe alot of things going on.
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@@kevinlucas9905 hell even the kids in this video were confused. That's an excellent way of putting it
This is literally the most tired overused comparison. Anything remotely abstact has this comment. Also everyone thinks they're clever like they came up with it. It is like a douchebag coming of age moment.
1:10
“Does it make you feel any type of way?”
“Uhhhhh confused?”
I was having a bad day til I heard that kid say that. 😂
DaVinci was
an Inventor
painter
carved statues
Todays artists can be replaced by a 12year old with paint
Das Kampffredchen anti intellectual
12old are way better 2year old maybe closer
Not 12 year old but 2 year old toddlers 😂
Only if you know no actual living artists today. Artists and beautiful art, do exist today.
The most insidious part of this exercise is how some of those people were absolutely afraid of telling the truth! The one boy and the cop gave the most truthful responses - confusion and laughter. My soul grieved when the one man talked about how “our progressive culture had broke a lot of [the old standards].”
It was funny when Will was trying to decipher his painting and could not, so he changed the subject!
Yup my fave and more realistic response was the boy 1st then the cop.
Everyone else just trying to be nice
Kindness is a virtue
@@Somethingshouldgohere lying is not.
Renato Bonfanti They were asked what they saw in it and they gave an answer, how do you know they were lying?
@@Somethingshouldgohere yes indeed, but do not confuse politeness to kindness. Those people just being polite, not kind. Being honest is kinder than politely lie.
"So, this kind of represents, like, Japanese masculinity"
😂😂😂😂
lmao.
@Fracking Saves no u
The kids are always honest man.
nd the irony is, their artwork is honest & way better than some of these dumb adults who may be doing some of the most ridiculous modern art ( ie duct taping a banana to a wall, blank canvases, poop in a can, or peeing in a street & declaring it art and getting a ton of money or even millions for it). Problem is it's all run by brain dead ultra rich people & their $$$$ controls it all, nothing else. Doesn't have anything to do with the actual art, the standards, skill, beauty, talent or intent of the artist.
*Leonardo Da Vinci :"I painted the*
*Mona Lisa"*
*Will Witt : "Hold my paint brush"*
😂😂😂
How are you gonna paint without a paint brush?
Will Witt:
"I'm gonna end this man's career"
John Spinelli he's already dead.U can't say that!
@@michaelmiky11 exactly.
I'm a classically trained realist artist, if you guys only knew how hard it was to learn the skills of the masters because of these people... It may or may not surprise you to know that Realist/Classical Ateliers and Academies are not eligible for accreditation and therefore promising students cannot receive loans or grants yet at a modern art school you can get a free ride for edgy "period-blood" paintings you did your senior year of high school. Modernists of the early 20th century almost wiped the traditions of painting and sculpture from the face of the planet in an effort to "not repeat the mistakes of the past that led to WWI." Look up the Armory show of 1913 where it all started. The economics of modern art also CRIPPLED the traditional artists of the time. Why spend a month on a painting when Picasso can crank out 10 canvases in a day? As a gallery, why only sell 10 paintings per month when you can sell 100's??? I plan on writing a book on my experiences as an art student navigating our broken world in an effort to piece together the puzzle left to us by the great masters of the Victorian era and prior. Many of the Ateliers and Academies of today only exist because of a few direct lines of lineage as well as painting manuals/texts.
Yeugh. You're the second person in this comment section I've seen attribute "period blood paintings" to liberal "artists". Is that a thing they actually do?
LOOMING WRAITH OF BAD OMEN Yes. I've even seen it with the pad.
@@LOOMING_WRAITH_OF_BAD_OMEN Yes, it actually happened. And the progressive "art" establishment panned it as brave and brilliant.
That sounds like an interesting, and possibly important book. You should definitely consider making the effort.
@@MKCarol-ms7lg Bad people can have good taste too.
I shook my head at modern "art" when I was a kid myself. I remember saying, "I could do THAT!"
U are not alone
but you didn't!
@Fracking Saves man your a fgenius
@@a.b.h.i.j.i.t.h I did it all the time. Just knew it wasn't worth a 💩 so I didn't try to fool anyone into buying it! Lol
@Fracking Saves thank you for your kind words.
I’m glad to see that there are still Honest Cops out there.
My art teacher in highschool in the 90s was an old hippie woman. She said and drew alot of strange stuff. One thing she said that was absolute genius, that I will never forget and forever changed my view of art, is this : Effective art is art that garners a reaction. It doesn't matter if the reaction is good or bad. Ineffective art garners a non reaction and is forgotten the second you look away.
To create beautiful art requires a soul; not brainwashed political narratives.
domhnall777 So what's left? Drones covering canvases and their faces in menstrual blood and circling around a flag, droning, "He will not divide us?" Or dying your armpit hair to look like a rainbow? Because from people like ANTIFA, that's as close to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel as it's gonna get.
@domhnall777
Oooo, feel the bern...
Nice, cute little sentiment, but I have to ask from a neutral standpoint: Does your big brain philosophical quote only apply when it comes to liberal/leftist agendas?
If you "pour" your "soul" on the canvas with no proper painting technique you will get exactly what modern artists "draw"
domhnall777 not really. Conservatives conserve what is beautiful and good. Leftists are only good at tearing down, any halfwit can do that. Creating or building something with permanence however requires standards
I mean, people see things in Rorschach cards too, doesn't make them art
How can you say that you MISOGYNIST?
@@palimpalim5291 don't be ridiculous, my comment makes it perfectly clear that I'm a WHITE NATIONALIST
There's no standards in art? Spitting on the face of the great painters of the past, who took their time to master their craft
Cabal anti intellectual
Dude, read a book! Most of the people we hail as great artists were considered radicals and terrible in their time, picasso in particular.
@@JackedThor-so Dude, it wasnt really until the impressionist movement and onwards that some great artists were beginning to be considered 'radicals' in the sense you're using it. This wasn't true of the periods before (i.e. baroque renaissance, romantic etc.) And for God's sake you dont think Picasso had standards and honed his craft? Part of the reason that art (in general; architecture, music, etc.) keeps becoming simpler and in some cases degenerate, is because people have completly divorced it from craft. This mostly happened after the World Wars, however some seeds were planted in the romantic periods. So I invite you to read a book, or several, and educate yourself.
The core of art is skill
I love the officer.... "It reminds me of cake"
Yes if you look into history art has devolved not evolved. There are statues that cant be done today.
Agreed. I feel the same about music also, you?
The artists with the capabilities still exists, but they are not given credit or admiration unless they drink the KoolAid and embrace the gross/ugly as beautiful. A self-damaging lie one _must_ convince themselves of, less their careers be razed by the gatekeepers.
Mr P Music is in a really horrible poaition. Look up the Millenial whoop. Its a saying that discribes a form of music. That same form of music can be found in every single “hit” song in the past ten years. Hence why if you break it down, most modern music sounds very similar.
@Michael Madden We are a long way from Mozart and Bach
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I made a fine painting and sold it for a dollar.
I accidently spilled paint on it and it sold for a million dollar.
Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Jackson Pollock!
I love how you can see Will trying not to laugh.
I'm not going to generalize. There are some good decent modern art. It's a matter of personal preference. However, there are some which are completely pointless and to seem to have been made by 5 year.olds
But for most part, there are some decent modern art work out there.
Decent art are often overshadowed by the bad ones especially due to critics
There is no Modern Art or ..........Arts
There is only Good and Bad Art😊
I prefer the mantra "Art is art, but there is absolutely no accounting for taste".
David Ford Exactly 🤗
@Fracking Saves Talking about yourself?
I'm not defending the trash, merely pointing out that people have different preferences. And the ONLY reason why this stuff even gets to be called "art" is because some rich idiot paid to have it on display. It is our responsibility to mock and ridicule it.
@Fracking Saves Just because you say so doesn't make it true. Reality is, if there is no market, no demand, the artist goes broke and the work never gets sold.
Exactly, kind of like there is no right or left politically. There is only morally right and wrong. Just so happens that 99% of the morally right... Is on the right.
Modern art actually looks VERY beautiful...
When you’re drunk or high
That would explain a lot.
Who said any art or any THING has to be beautiful to appreciate it?
I too used to poo-poo "modern' art, abstraction, etc, when I was 12 and knew nothing about it. It wasn't aesthetically pleasing to the eye, and so I didn't like the way it looked. Then, after just a cursory education of that work (not to mention the many years of learning about it later), I saw it in a different light. It's not meant to "look pretty", so why judge it only in the arena of things like flowers and attractive people and decorations?
Also, pretty art, being that it's just that and nothing deeper, is BORING. Just like pretty people, if they've nothing else going for them, have no interests, aren't smart, can't hold a conversation, etc, are also boring. Books with nice covers that contain uninteresting subject matter, are garbage.
Come on.
Jonathan Wood If you think abstract art is deep, I really feel sorry for you.
@@yourdailydoseofreality3219 that's not really a rebuttal I can respect. Try again.
For instance - how would you define "deep"? So we're on the same page - then, how is abstract art not whatever you think "deep" is?
@@yourdailydoseofreality3219 and to clarify why I ask - never in my response did I describe/label abstract art as "deep", and if you're implying that artwork is/can only be either beautiful or deep, then I would argue that's a false dichotomy and, again, someone on here is blatantly advertising theirack of education on these matters.
"Modern art" is one of the places where the descending of the West can be seen unlike anywhere else... its disgraceful.
Modern art has completly departed from the traditional european standards of aesthetics, hence its absolute dreadfulness.
Maximilian R. Astor that doesn’t logically follow at all you anti intellectual
@Chrjs ok?
In high school I watched a video in art class about modern art, so I’ve long had some awareness of that sort of “art.” Make no mistake, my art teacher at the time had us draw still lives and gesture drawings, so I have legitimate art training. But I never understood how people could think that a giant ash tray or a canvas that was painted all in one color with a tiny brush could have more artistic merit than a children’s picture book, or a comic strip, or an anime.
Dennis at the end is just hilarious!
Exact same thing happened at my college with atonal music. People are listening to non-music and trying to think of hyper-intellectualized psycho-babble to give it legitimacy.
@Alice Moore nah the OP above is clearly the idiot.
Khord Kitty you’re trolling right
There is alot of great atonal music. Art is subjective to deny that is peak douche energy.
Of course Dennis Prager would have a meaning behind his painting.
As soon as I heard him "explaining" his painting - I was hoping for the kids to explain theirs 😒
Honestly his children are smarter than him
he's good at bullshitting. He also looks good in a painting outfit, hard to hate him when he looks like a grandpa.
Lol I want it.🥺😂
I love he couldn't keep it together after he said "Japanese masculinity"
Baby: paints random stripes
Millionaire: ILL TAKE IT FOR 6 BILLION!
Al_xz then they wouldn’t be a millionaire....
Milionaires don't have any billion
“Looks like a sword DRIPPING down the side”
🤣
A "cowardly" sword 🤣🤣🤣🤣
90% of yall judging modern art can't even draw a stick figure straight. You can't judge an art when you don't even understand it. True modern artists can differentiate between scribbles and modern art. If it's so dumb then why are business elites always purchasing at such prices them as decorations? You gotta be sophisticated to understand this typa thing. PragerU isn't nearly sophiscated to think deeply about art. In fact modern art does not choose an audience of average people.
“This art is-it’s total crap.”
Speak for yourself, those two kids are masters.
Modern art, including music, was dumbed down to ruin exceptionalism in society.
Citation needed.
But, since you'll find no literary, nor trustworthy, nor sensical evidence to support your claim, I'll respond immediately: what?
You're implying there was some sort of.. memo-from-on-high that dictated all art to be "dumbed down", that all "modern" artists unquestionably followed this directive, and that it was all, across the board, including in the music industry, done in the name of ruining "exceptionalism" - whatever tf that is/means..?
1) the art you speak of, overall and individually speaking - took far more thought, attention to detail, cerebral content, and artistic/intellectual know-how than any "Master's" piece depicting various bible sequences or one-liners - and certainly more than the countless pieces commissioned by the church in order to one-up other artists' work of the same names 2) the path to abstraction was a long, arduous, and all-together fascinating journey through time and tradition, and yet it's simple enough for the vast majority of college students to grasp after whichever low-level Art History class they took to learn it (its reiterated many times during many different classes because it all overlaps, and revisits this very rudimentary of concepts/timelines)
3) an interesting thing about abstraction is that the hyper disciplined, hyper-respectful Japanese calligraphy artists eventually broke their own craft down until arriving at the same type of abstraction y'all hate for no good reason.
If y'all had actually looked in to any of this I think you would have typed out such crap
Shawn Rhem And yet these “abstractionists” have become the most fierce exceptionalists. If you don’t “understand” their “art”, you are an idiot. Just look at the two ridiculously aggressive people in this comments section.
@@yourdailydoseofreality3219 I'm no abstract artist, but I have a great appreciation for their very easily understood artwork. If you don't get it then you're just lazy, and/or willfully obstinate/ignorant.
Here’s an article by music industry insiders explaining how the industry used hip hop to dumb down the culture. It apparently worked on you, Jonathan!www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html
Jonathan Wood Thanks for proving my point. Continue insulting people and showcasing your psychological issues.
modern art may as well be Rorshach Inkblots.
Exactly
Well those would at least be cool looking, a recreation of a trashbag as I saw in a museum is.... disappointing.
The problem isn't the modern art, it's the recognition of good modern art amongst regular citizens.
When he had to keep the act together at 1:30 😂😂😂 I was dying laughing.
@Fracking Saves U seY WuT bRo brO????
They like it because it reminds them of what's in themselves!
: Meaningless filth and squander
Crap? Or confusion?
@@amberslahlize7961 Both
@@norvusordoseclorum I liek u
There two challenges that in modern art. 1st, artists have become political social warriors - because it’s an easy subject. No longer are they the visual poet unfolding the human condition and the depth of nature. And 2nd, they forgo learning the craft of art skipping the hard work and leapfrogging straight to abstract art. No longer is abstract or interpretive art an extension of talent - it has become a substitute for talent.
Actually, after rereading my own comment- there is only one reason. They’re lazy.
Omfg what are you even talking about.. no one makes abstract art anymore. More one.
Also, talent is innate; skill is learned. But yes, many young artists these days choose to forgo/ignore the basics - but not out of laziness - they're a mixture of impatient and untrusting of/uninterested in the process that all art schools and colleges put them through.
Which, funnily enough, contradicts this and Prager "u"'s other video - and this joke of a "university" is just making things worse by spreading this uneducated garbage.
@Alice Moore go away from this public video posted on a public forum that has comments to spur public discourse? Nah.
And says I? I do says, and I'm right.
Jonathan Wood “No one makes abstract art anymore”🤣 Did you just came out of a cave?
Jonathan Wood: Abstract art is known as any art form that is not an accurate representation of a form or object. What this means is that you will not see a definite shape or figure in the art, you will have to look at it closely and interpret what you see. The art itself is differed in many ways including color and form. The artist sees something in the painting and artwork and often the viewer may see something not intend by the artist.
@@BiggMo here, it explains what abstract art is way better en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art even gives the history.
It sucks because of relativism. Literally that's it. "That canvas is whatever you want it to be! Anything you see!"
That essentially makes the viewer the artist. The viewer is using their mind while the "artist" reaps the benefits of others' imagination. In any other situation, they would be regarded a con-man, or con-artist, if you prefer. There is more artistry in the con than on the canvas.
@@aliensoup2420 That's actually a very good point and it's spot on. These "artists" are lazy and expect the viewer to interpret what is on the canvas, essentially giving the art no meaning of it's own thus making it worthless, but the mindset of modern art nowadays would call that kind of art a "masterpiece".
@@peachesandcream8753 Is it any wonder that the rise of Marxism and the modern art movement are coincidental. Modern art could be thought of, in a sense, as cultural Marxism. Ayn Rand says it better in "The Romantic Manifesto".
Metal Jacket you clearly don’t understand relativism
@@aliensoup2420 thank you for making that point. That's what I was thinking through the whole video!
Hearing Mr Prager's speech on his art, I would have totally bought it.
Wish you showed the reaction of the others after you said it was done by kids lol
The late Francis Schaeffer's one of the 20th centuries greatest Christian apologetic s wrote a little book Art and the Bible notes where he notes 'We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life'
There are standards to art. If I work for years honing my craft, practicing constantly and screwing up my wrist to create something, and someone can yeet some paint at a canvas and call it art, I'd be pissed if some random non-artist or stranger told me "there are no standards for art, it's about expression". I am pissed that some random stranger told you that. If there's no standard for art, then why are there art schools?
It's like saying there's no standard for any sort of artistic craft, so long as it's about feelings. That anything can be garbage so long as it's what you feel inside (not to be confused with painting garbage on purpose because you feel like garbage).
It's like saying doctors can get away with shady and subpar medical practice because they feel that they shouldn't be held to standard or expected to produce goods or services of high quality.
Sorry for long comment, but i didn't dedicate my life to getting told "artist isn't a good career idea" and spending my time proving people who said that wrong, just for someone to say it's for nothing.
Yes!
Love this. Modern Art = The Emperor’s New Clothes. What I find far more interesting is art drawn by children.
Oh me to I would much rather go through a vast building hoesed by the art of children.
When you look at a Rembrandt ...and compare to modern art...you can tell which era appreciate real talent.
@Fracking Saves If you think puking on a canvas and throwing some paint on top of it is art...then you're right, I never appreciated art. I do, however, appreciate real talent. If you don't know the difference, then good for you..ignorance is bliss.
@Fracking Saves it depends on the book, but if you say that Rembrandt is not on your list as appreciated art, then you might as well commit post natal abortion.
Pam Delaney anti intellectual
Because people with no talents have access to someone else’s money.
Reminds me of a prank someone pulled at an art gallery where they put a pair of glasses on the floor with nothing else around it, bare floor, bare walls, just to see how people would react. There were oohs and aahs and pictures taken and attempts to explain the profundity. Idiots.
I'd like to think that eventually someone came along and while the amazed crowd watched, said something like ah there they are, picked them up, put them on, and calmly walked away.
As a meme creator, I have standards. My audience is Reddit.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and clearly, they are blind to art theory as much as they are to reality.
Art is art, but there is NO accounting for taste. I prefer Eastern classical art over the crap they pass off as modern art today.
Can we find my people like you 🤔
*Somebody dumps their bodily fluids onto a canvas*
"This is art!"
(Believe it or not, there was a video about painting with " . " blood)
Thank you. This topic deserves way more attention, but it’s a great start. As someone who’s been in the art world her whole life, it’s been maddening to know what art actually is and to see what society has turned it into. This nails it. But again, I’d love to see a deeper discussion about this.
Wow I wish I knew more people like that.
At first I was ready to congratulate the girl cop on getting it. Then she said there should be no standards in art, “especially today” 🤦♂️
"Japanese masculinity" LMFAO
Dennis Pragers looked like sundaes on a cake.
I think I’m hungry 😂
I went to a modern art museum a few years ago. (I won't say which city) One exhibit was a basket full of rocks. One was a room that was pitch black that you stood in for a few minutes until you were disoriented. One picture was just a round yellow dot. And one exhibit was a reflection of the ceiling of the museum in a barrel of oil. I'd like to have those 2 hours back.
How did you do these interviews with a straight face?
Modern arts enthusiasts completely missed the point of the meaning of art.
I need friends that think like that.
Actually we need artistes that think like that.
They look like Rorschachs - as in, "I want you to look at these cards and tell what you see" . . . 😂😂😂
The truth is that people rarely say they dislike those "kind of art" .
(1:10) "Confused". I love that kid!!! Now that is a true art critic.
At least you draw better than me.
I'm personally a fan of abstract art. I have saved in my channel the best abstract/impressionist art I could find on UA-cam. I like how observers have to find meaning in the artwork, and how the observer plays a role in creating the art. In the more objective and realistic art styles, it feels like the artist became a photocopy machine. I don't mean to denigrate those artists who are skilled in realism, the best part is my opinion ultimately doesn't matter, art is supposed to be subjective. I feel conservatives should get into abstract art because it's an exercise in creativity and imagination. lack of creativity and imagination is responsible for our cultural failures.
I'm so confused how society seems to consciously be afraid to hurt someone's feelings when it comes to one expressing themselves in this "medium" but when they express themselves politically they will try to destroy your life in many different ways, online, at your place of employment, etc.
Thought Will was going to lose it there for a sec, but he reeled it back in and stayed in character. Bravo, sir, bravo.
"everyone's expression should be valid" It doesn't mean it should be art.
well, what is the baseline of art? What are the minimum requirements for something to be art?
@@TV_Atlas205 Well, for the art to resemble something of substance would be nice.
@@LeviAckerman-cb5ji and what is the minimum requirement of substance? It sounds like its all subjective.
@@TV_Atlas205 I don't know. Are you capable of discerning an in depth painstaking emotional process apart from a five minute series of splatter and spastic brush strokes? There is nothing subjective about either of those. One is an artist, the other is trash. If you cannot tell the difference, then true art is completely lost on you.
Levi Ackerman time spent on a art piece does not equate to a quality piece of art
The beauty of art is something can leave a profound effect on one person and not another art is completely subjective. This is why art snobs are looked down upon
Good on the woman who laughed at him..modern art is shite..it's a hiding place for people who can't draw ! !
My late father used to judge art shows. He displayed as an artist, and trained me to set up displays based on the same rules for creating a decent painting. There is a legitimacy to some modern art which demonstrates technical control and mastery of shading, contrast, the way the eye is directed through or captured by the compositional elements, etc. However, the test between whether or not it is simply crap starts with the question: Is this something with which people will truly want to live? And it ends with: Does this contribute a quality of meaning in the lives of those who will live with it? Too much of what is today called art simply is not.
I'm a professional artist, so this video totally resonated with me! People should not have to struggle so hard to figure out what your art is representing. There are too many excuses in art to cover for people lacking talent.
I love how Will was laughing through his on-the-spot BS spiel too. Cracked me up! Great video, as always!
First off, you mean contemporary art. Second, it's not awful. There are some great painters, photographers, and filmmakers working today. Unfortunately, a majority of the art is driven purely by ego coupled with zero humility.
Ricardo Cantoral like anything really
i have seen better art in those caves in France.
I attend a class in painting the human figure. It takes years of study and concentration. There is nothing more satisfying than working hard and seeing results.A few students in the class are “doing their own thing”. I have to sit there politely during critiques and try to think of something nice to say about their “work”. It is false to assume that the great artists of the past did not have to work very hard to achieve mastery. It is actually depressing to me to look at a Jackson Pollack in a museum when truly accomplished artists work is virtually ignored.
Can we get a behind the scenes video about this video? That bit with you and Mr Prager painting was the best part of this video to me.
Several years ago I was forced to go on a "gallery hop", visiting about a dozen modern art galleries in one evening. I saw enough framed multicolored toilet seats and spray painted driftwood "sculptures" to last me a lifetime. I will now tell you in five words why modern art is so bad... _the invention of the camera_ .
I have heard that the invention of the camera changed many things. It both changed art and ushered in a new art form. I've always thought of photography as an "easy" art form. It all but ended portrait art.
+ *Mike Walters* The invention of the camera is a major reason this sort of art exists in the first place. Realism lost a lot of merit once it became possible to photograph a realistic portrait in seconds. That's why there was a movement away from realism and towards abstraction, which had more scope for creativity and less competition.
Not modern art. Some of that sounds contemporary.
yep .. the VAST majority of modern art looks to me like done by a toddler .. or been found in a trash bin ..
TheyCalledMeT anti intellectual
Sponsored by the NEA-National Endowment Arts in the 90’s, one artist in a gallery in Santa Monica had too much wall space left over, so he took a shoelace out of his very grubby tennis shoe and hung it on a random nail. Asked about it during his showing, he said precisely that, that it was his shoelace from a floppy shoe. No one said a thing. True story.
I'm a professional artist, so this video totally resonated with me! People should not have to struggle so hard to figure out what your art is representing. There are too many excuses in art to cover for people lacking talent.
Why does Will look homeless
Callum Steward blending in in LA
Callum Steward I’d imagine that’s what a lot of people in the area look like, at least from what I can tell.
that's what a liberal artist looks like
Callum Steward because he is
Because of the left...
Any explanation for that or?...
Give a medal to the presenter for being able to maintain a straight face throughout all of it.
Is there a video you painting ?
PragerU thinks kids art is crap!!
=P
I too, think it's crap.
Loved Dennis Prager explaining his at the end and how Will couldn't keep a straight face.
his was the best looking of all of them.
The kid who said it made him feel confused had the best assessment.
What else can you expect to find in the random scrawling of two kids.
...and a two year old and a five year old.
We don't create modern art anymore. We create contemporary art. Modern art era ended in the late 1960s/70s. Since then, all current art forms are under the contemporary movement. You can find great art in any era. This was more of an abstract art style, which is an acquired taste, but not the only type of art that exists nowadays. Lots of realism exists in modern and contemporary art. I like Prager U, but the crowd here is mostly not an art crowd.