Why is Modern Art so Bad?

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🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.

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0:00.0	The Mona Lisa, the Pietà, the girl with a pearl earring.
0:06.2	For a score of centuries, artists enriched Western society with their works of astonishing
0:11.4	beauty, the night watch, the thinker, the Rocky Mountains.
0:17.1	Master after master from Leonardo to Rembrandt to Beershot, produced works that inspired,
0:23.0	uplifted, and deepened us.
0:25.4	And they did this by demanding of themselves the highest standards of excellence, improving
0:30.5	upon the work of each previous generation of masters, and continuing to aspire to the
0:36.0	highest quality attainable.
0:38.7	But something happened on the way to the 20th century.
0:42.0	The profound, the inspiring, and the beautiful were replaced by the new, the different, and
0:48.3	the ugly.
0:49.6	Today, the silly, the pointless, and the purely offensive are held up as the best of modern
0:54.9	art.
0:56.2	Michael Angelo carved his David out of Iraq.
0:59.6	The Los Angeles County Museum of Archist offers us a rock.
1:03.5	A rock.
1:04.8	All 340 tons of it.
1:07.3	That's how far standards have fallen.
1:10.5	How did this happen?
1:12.2	How did the thousand year ascent towards artistic perfection and excellence die out?
1:17.7	It didn't.
1:19.0	It was pushed out.
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