Fly Fishing Secrets

Take a trip to the modern art museum in New York and you might hear a few skeptics proclaiming “my son could make that!” Well, could he have? Not exactly, and that’s partially the point of modern art — even if a kid could do it, they didn’t.

Here are a few more reasons why that just won’t do as art criticism.

#5: Modern Artists Can Do Traditional Stuff, Too.

One of the most frequent charges is that the modern artist simply cannot muster the appropriate skill to actually create a classic painting, so they’ve gone off in another direction to mask their inability.

But it’s not true — the great majority of all the modernists could really paint extremely well. It was just too difficult to keep going on in that fashion and say anything new or original, hence modernism’s noisy introduction.

#4: These People Are Consistently Able to Produce.

If you use the typical kid-could-paint-that argument, you’re not really focusing on the fact that your kid might be able to produce a convincing Rothko imitation if he got really lucky, but then he’d move on to drawing a cat that was bigger than a house.

Plus, take someone like Barnett Newman — it wasn’t that he repeated his stripes, over and over, tricking the audience into buying his ’simplistic’ paintings — he kept the art world’s focus with his constant production.

#3: Art is Made Out of the Actual Experience, Too.

Look, if your kid can whip out a reasonable imitation of a Jasper Johns, I’d celebrate too. But is he then going to introduce it into a world that’s trying to figure out the validity of the artist/art relationship? Is he going to say anything (through art or through his declarations) about modernism itself?

If you’re not interested in all of that, that’s OK — there are plenty of galleries full of renaissance painting that can make you happy for the rest of your life. But some people are concerned with evolving the standards, established in the 1400s and before, about what real art actually is. Your kid probably isn’t one of these, but many others were.

#2: The Market Makes The Prices.

Arguments about contemporary (or modern) art’s actual value tend to come out when a museum or government uses public funding to buy a piece of art that isn’t universally acknowledged as ‘great’ (almost all modern and contemporary art, basically).

Especially when a lot of money is paid, newspaper articles tend to get written with tremendous speed. But hey, the artist didn’t set that price, and it’s not his or her fault that the market is willing to pay for that.

#1: It’s All Been Done.

Why should anyone bother competing with the Sistine Chapel? When you can throw paint splotches at a canvas until it finally starts making sense, shouldn’t you be doing that, instead of trying to reach a level of renaissance craftsmanship that is best left to its era?

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