There are many forces at work either stretching, appropriating, exploiting art. What we used to understand as art is rapidly becoming a historical period in the story of art. What is the next chapter? — Punshhh
What I was thinking is what is the next movement in the progression? We've had Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Modernism, Post Modernism, Post Post Modernism. What's next? — Punshhh
↪frank I agree with you. Art helps us find out what Comes next. Not the other way round.
↪frank I agree with you. Art helps us find out what Comes next. Not the other way round — Razorback kitten
What is it that preoccupies our contemporary generation? What would they say about truth? Do they even care about truth? — frank
I notice you didn't mention what Modernism said. It seems to me that it said anything is art and anything can be art. — Punshhh
Could you say more about that? — frank
In addition, I strongly recommend people read Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. The technology age has a similar democratizing effect upon culture as did the mass production age as described by Veblen. Technology provides information and entertainment to the masses in the same way that mass production brought material goods to the masses. Technology fills in the leisure spaces with entertainment in the same way emulation of the habits of the leisure class filled the leisure spaces created by the automation of mass production. — Arne
That fits with what Warhol was. When technology gives people more time, they don't use it to relax, they use it to go faster, get more stuff done, run the economy hotter.
They resist being arrested by simple stuff as if they're hungry for action. This may be getting more social-criticism than Warhol really is, but it's there. — frank
This is what the next art will grow from. You may not even recognise it as art, you might reject it, but it will exist. Just read the newspaper, watch the news, go on the internet, not to be informed but to see what others take in, which is nothing actually. More use of cartoons, animated toothbrushes, talking bananas, and that’s the advertising for adults. Taylor Swift: political activist, a candle that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina. Truth, who can say what it means anymore.
Maybe your life’s the new art. Greta Thunberg to trademark her name. We all become products,we’re all art, we’re all artists. Everything’s priceless, nothings for sale, we all live the illusion, we’re all perfect, we don’t have to do anything except be. — Brett
There is a quality of transformation in the minds eye from one thing to another, or the appearance, or hallucination of something else, things not being as they seem, or seeming to be something else. An interesting take on the world of art. — Punshhh
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