Is it normal to think some modern art is useless?

I walk in to an art gallery, there are great peices, realism, abstract, modern, old time looking. But some modern stuff today is just useless and I dont even consider it art, more like at attempt to be unique. IS this normal?

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  • Johnnyman

    Art - like beauty - is in the eye of the beholder. What you feel is useless may bring someone else great joy. What you feel is childish and messy may have not only helped the artist move on to something even better, but also may have helped someone else feel something they've lost touch with. Many times we don't like things simply because we don't understand them.I used to hate abstract art, but now I actually love a lot of it because, having made a lot of art (both abstract and realistic), I now understand it. Yes, granted, some abstract art looks pretty dull and uninteresting, but again, it may look great to someone else. That's why art is so much more interesting than TV. It's very personal, nobody has the same reaction.

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  • heartbrokenbutterfly

    yeah, i hate modern art. a blue square on a canvas worth a million dollars? ugh. it pisses me off.

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  • jamie1000013

    all art accept pictures smd lol

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  • Yeah - I feel that way. But maybe I'm just not getting it .. who knows ... ?

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  • maikel

    That's the trouble with multi-gallery art, which is why I have a hard time wanting to submit stuff. When you have a whole collective of different artists put in one gallery, the continuity of one person's style is lost in the plethora of other people's ideas, emotions, and artistic signatures. It all becomes a mass of pictures/sculptures - each one screaming "PICK ME!"

    Seeing one picture in an impersonal gallery setting may actually degrade its intrinsic value in an isolated setting such as one's personal reading room or office. We may never know what the artist actually intended when they were creating it in the comfort of their own chosen ambience. Perhaps they painted it in softer light or on a screened-in porch overlooking a rolling wooded hillside, or standing on their head with their eyes rolling around on their third microdot...

    Everyone has a right to paint, sculpt, write, compose. We have a right to observe, criticize, and ultimately purchase if that right is available to us. Hope this helps.

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  • dontlookatme

    A piece of art is worth only what skill, effort, and feeling went into its creation. Some modern art, like "abstract" art that looks as though it were done by a five year old, is not really art, but rather a form of self expression (and yes, is useless).

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  • NormalityMan

    Normal. I love art, some of it is a bit useless. Your entitled to opinion. Worry not

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  • art needs to be prepertiuated condensed into a splitashiwa of awesomeness, yes marvelous pieces i.e leonardo davinci and bob slappadappapopovitch great examples of spectacular old time artists.
    Nowadays there are completley gargantuan amoutns of indomitobly stupidly staribotical work that has none of the least sent me in a meniaccal state of hatefulness of such worthless new pieces that should be garbage trash.

    SO UH, WHAT THE FUCK DDID I JUST SAY, I DIDNT UNDERSTAND A WORD OF WHAT I JUST TYPED I ONLY UNDERSTOOD TRASH. WTF?

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