[An4ximandros]

The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. What the frak is this schite?

[el_magnifico]

That's it, internet! I'm going to bed right now.

Spoiler:

And I'm really hoping I don't have any nightmares tonight.

[mjn.mixael]

I...

Uh... 

Hmmm...................

[esarai]

I have seen this before and each time I think I can interpret it, but then no, it just becomes demented as frak and I no longer know if it's actually trying to express something or is just epic trolling given free reign under the guise of artistic expression.

[Mongoose]

Ah, good to see the emperor's-new-clothes aspect of modern art is still as vibrant as ever.

[deathfun]

No description available.

Sounds about right...

[Mikes]

This video contains music of SME and is not available.... grah.

[Mars]

Here, I'll transcribe it for you:

Moaning, possibly male or female, definitely sensuous.

Crutches

[watsisname]

Sex pistons.

That's it, internet! I'm going to bed right now.

Spoiler:

And I'm really hoping I don't have any nightmares tonight.

Quoted for mother****ing truth.

[Rodo]

now that was fun.

NO

[General Battuta]

Ah, good to see the emperor's-new-clothes aspect of modern art is still as vibrant as ever.

How apropos for this particular act!

But this act is really easy to read, and I encourage everybody in this thread to do just that. All your confused emoticons and baffled posts are a little disappointing; the art here offers some pretty direct and transparent interpretations about how we interface with our own bodies.

[Luis Dias]

Ninja'd. The act is so obvious. Of course, being so obvious is what precisely confuses people, who are expecting "deepity" out of it.

[General Battuta]

If you guys have ever seen any David Lynch (you should!) or horror films like Jacob's Ladder, there is all kinds of really cool stuff that can be done with dance-type choreography.

e: to cause unease and **** I mean

[mjn.mixael]

If you guys have ever seen any David Lynch (you should!) or horror films like Jacob's Ladder, there is all kinds of really cool stuff that can be done with dance-type choreography.

e: to cause unease and **** I mean

So you're one of those guys...

This video is an example of everything wrong with modern art. My opinion. It's stupid, ugly, and tries way too hard to be provocative. I prefer the good 'ol days where art was meant to be beautiful, not this BS where our society's "progressive" culture allows us to do any damned thing under the guise of art.

[Luis Dias]

I'll have provocative before beautiful any ****ing day.

And for anyone who doesn't, then don't have it. Is anybody forcing you to have it? No. So why bother?

Why bother indeed with what other people find interesting and provocative?

[mjn.mixael]

I'll have provocative before beautiful any ****ing day.

And for anyone who doesn't, then don't have it. Is anybody forcing you to have it? No. So why bother?

Why bother indeed with what other people find interesting and provocative?

If you don't like my opinion, don't read it?

On the note of what you call "forcing"... There's art museum here. Full of beautiful works from many cultures and time periods. Littered among all the most incredible works of art in there are things like this little number... There's two light builds plugged into a wall made from hardware from Home Depot. That's it. There's a little blurb next to it explaining how the light bulbs represent the love of two gay men and how one will inevitably die (burn out) before the other. Wat. The museum paid money for that exhibit. That does not belong next the most elaborate paintings from the 16th century. It just doesn't. But some dude who wanted to be provocative to people like me made it happen.

The whole point of being provocative is to get under people's skin... I find it just dumb.

[Luis Dias]

False equivalence. You railed against this freedom we have of doing art you don't like. Like the nerve of people. The nerve.

[General Battuta]

So you're one of those guys...

This video is an example of everything wrong with modern art. My opinion. It's stupid, ugly, and tries way too hard to be provocative. I prefer the good 'ol days where art was meant to be beautiful, not this BS where our society's "progressive" culture allows us to do any damned thing under the guise of art.

Uh, can we just agree to have different tastes?

There's always been a strain of challenging, 'ugly' art. Look at Boschian art, or Munch.

And if it's worth anything, I've only come to 'understand' modern art in the past year or two. I definitely would've agreed wholeheartedly with you three or four years ago.

e: Can you see the importance of the unsettling and the uncomfortable in art about the Holocaust, or a soldier's PTSD?

[mjn.mixael]

We can certainly agree to disagree.. though I don't care that you are implying I don't understand it as if the problem is in the the beholder. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder then art is destined to be subjective and I am allowed to consider this POS video to be a POS... and you have to deal with that fact as much as I have to deal with the fact that you find it interesting.

Of note, I'm not surprised that Luis is taking a single post where I stated it was my opinion and is trying to start an argument. The nerve of him to think my opinion is invalid.

[General Battuta]

I think there are rewards to be had in learning to process 'modern art'. It won't render all of it good, but it will allow you to extract value that can be applied to your own creativity. I know I've made things that you enjoyed that were influenced by things you probably wouldn't enjoy.

e: The recent film Prometheus is a great example. Prometheus is a total wreck at the surface level but is packed full of interesting subtext to dissect.