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Modern Artists have little skill and no restraint

Robert Frank Gabriel

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January 17th, 2019 - 04:13 PM

Modern Artists have little skill and no restraint

Can an artist do whatever he or she wants, without any constraint.

Yes and that is the Problem. We live in a cynical age overrun with billions of tons of material garbage cluttering up and destroying nature. Hence now anyone can claim to be an Artist simply by going to the local garbage dump, bringing home a discarded object, and then presenting it in a gallery or museum as "art."

I seek Artists who are very skilled in making images. When I gaze at Art, I want an aesthetic experience (which I have when I look at Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Munch, etc).

Since it is rumored that God is dead, High Art must take God's place in presenting us with our transcendental visual bliss (and yes I really believe this).

The Western World has a long history of presenting really great Art for our visual enhancement. Then along came the Industrial Revolution, Capitalism, unfettered consumerism, and billions of images that flit by our eyes on TV, etc.

All that has degraded High Art to the point of "an artist can do whatever he or she wants, without any constraint."

Fine Art enhances the human spirit. I also believe that good Art criticism (see Roger Scruton) is a "last ditch attempt to be part of the artistic tradition, to retain the internal perspective on an inherited culture."

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