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modern art
«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Girls, looking at, modern, moderns, modern art, painters, persuade, persuades
«What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Criticism,
Modernity
| Keywords:
distinguishes, Modern Age, modern art, The Modern Age
«The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
bafflement, concern, History of, history of art, History of the, increasingly, loss, modern art, modern history, progressive, Progressives, The History, The History of, The Progressive
«Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Imagination,
Skill
| Keywords:
baskets, craftsmanship, modern art, objects, picnic, picnicking, picnics, skill, such as, wickerwork
«Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
hangs, hang around, modern art, sculpture, sculptures, walk around
