[Epona]

Sorry to be a complete nitpick, but you are talking about contemporary art, not 'modern' art (which is a particular period of art covering most of the 20th century, including some impressionism, surrealism, dadaism, expressionism, fauvism, etc.)

I am a big fan of both modern and contemporary art, and get a bit fed up with people slagging it off. I admit to being a bit tired of the theme of artists questioning what makes art - ie. stick an unmade bed (Tracy Emins) in an art gallery taking it outside of its normal context and therefore it becomes art by definition - but when they do that they are in fact posing the question themselves 'what is art', in the full knowledge that that is what they are doing - in the same way as the article quoted does. The reason I'm a bit tired of that theme is because it is getting a bit old and was done very nicely by Marcel Duchamp many decades ago with his splendid piece 'The Fountain'. That was shocking and new when he did it, and really did explore the boundaries of what makes an item art, questioning our desires to place objects out of their normal position and inside a gallery, separating them from their function.

However I like many contemporary artists, such as Anish Kapoor, Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Juan Munoz etc.

I do get a bit fed up with people just having a go at it because they don't understand or enjoy it!

Bear in mind that Monet got a similar reception when he first burst onto the art scene.

[ 10-06-2002, 05:46 PM: Message edited by: Epona ]