This essay What Is Art? has made me think of art today, more specifically what some people call "modern" or "contemporary art" and the kind of experience I have had with that is in seeing art in MassMOCA and one other art museum. I feel that art since around the 1960's has become less sincere. Artists these days seem to be trying to give a message or make a piece of art for their generation and it does not really reflect the individual. For example, there was a piece of art in one museum I went to which had a photographed, mixed around picture which had symbols of microphones and dirt and such to show the degradation of the music industry.
In MassMOCA, there is an exhibit showing distorted and twisted birds to show certain emotions and while I feel this art is sincere and took a long time to produce, I feel the idea is cliche and borrowed from other sources. I feel many artists and writers rely upon cliches and stealing ideas and this makes the art very insincere. One needs only to look at the movies that are put out today and one can see the imitations of one film to the next. It is actually quite disgusting how little creativity actually exists in the mainstream. And to think that back in his day, Charles Dickens would have been mainstream and now the mainstream is something like Live Free or Die Hard. It is quite upsetting.
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