Banksy? Ai Weiwei? Jeff Koons? Brian Donnelly?
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Replying to @alicemazzy
modern art is about statement and abstraction, but doesn't have much to say after duchamp and warhol, can hardly abstract more than pollock or mondrian
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Replying to @alicemazzy
most people have an instinctive sense that things like koons's balloon dogs or weiwei's vase thing or hirst's shark or whatever are stupid
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Replying to @alicemazzy
even if the people who say they like/appreciate/understand these things aren't lying as part of status games, it's still overclever and ugly, intellectual masturbation
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Replying to @alicemazzy
whereas anime for better or worse excites the passions, has an unironic sense of beauty that is completely absent from the art world
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Seriously though? You’re cherry picking quite a bit. A shocking amount of modern anime is idol garbage aimed at draining the pockets of lonely NEETs
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Replying to @wompapmow
yea and a shocking amount of oil painting was minor aristocrats showing off bitches and bling
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and I was just coming up with a "contemporary art greatest hits" off the top of my head, the things I think people who like this stuff think is good
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