#Watching modern art discourse ping back and forth like a tennis ball and nodding and taking notes

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The assumption that modern (read: abstract) artists are all or mostly rich people whose wealth, free time, and social mobility is solely responsible for allowing them to paint Line On Canvas or etc and therefore the "I could do that" sentiment is like rooted in class struggle or whatever is funny to me

I don't disagree that part of the "I could do that" impulse is sometimes about seeing the (TINY minority) of that art that actually sells for more money than you make in a year, having the impression that it's low effort low skill garbage, and feeling frustration in that, but it's just not accurate to think modern (abstract, which is what people mean) art is Like That in any capacity that any other art form is not

#Watching modern art discourse ping back and forth like a tennis ball and nodding and taking notes #You are DEEPLY off base if you think most people making abstract art are like the landed bourgeoisie whose inherited wealth allows #them the privilege of painting Square #Either extend your revulsion to rich artists who make beautiful renaissance-esque paintings or be honest with yourself that it's #really not just an earnest reflection of the class struggle and you do have some bias on what is and isn't 'true art' #Which in the case of modern art is inextricable from a history of reactionary sentiment even if you are not personally like that #Also you can just not like it. You don't have to imagine that a painting of a square is by a mustache twirling elite billionaire #whose square endeavors are funded by mommy and daddy's oil money and therefore your dislike is moral and righteous #You can just think it sucks