Or it could equally be your capacity to understand new concepts is limited by a narrower range of experiences?
I reckon the people who can appreciate Paula Rego can equally appreciate Titian,
although honestly there isn't much contemporary art I like after the 60's, it seems the market is overly saturated with interesting but not particularly outstanding ideas
Oh yeah, random paint splashes are so deep it must be my failure to understand the underlying meaning of multicolored splatters of paint flung from an apparent distance of 2-1/2 feet., not that modern art has been a money laundering scam for rich kike crooks for over a century now.
it must be my failure to understand the underlying meaning of multicolored splatters of paint flung from an apparent distance of 2-1/2 feet
maybe it is
impressionism ignored detail and concerned itself with how light works cubism was simultaneous perspectives then it was just representing the geometry of an image surrealism was the unconscious mind Pollock was unconfined energy
these are just progressions of ideas, what is a new way of representing something about the human experience. There isn't a point where you can stop and say everything after this point is crap, because on some level most people are capable of understanding what the idea is. Although as you imply, the physicality of the execution and the concept being expressed are becoming widely separated. You have meaningless paint drips, and you have a sense of chaos and whirling. You are not just being asked to give an opinion on the quality of the paint drips
It's sort of the difference between a thank you note and a Haiku. Still just words but you experience them in a different way, partly because you are not reading a Haiku in a literal sense, and it has a rhythms and structure that's only apparent after you've read it
Impressionism and Cubism actually have some expressive concepts behind them. Go ahead and tell me exactly what your fart-major brain tells you Pollock was trying to achieve other than "sell $20 worth of art materials for five figures after spending fifteen minutes bashing them together randomly."
I'll be waiting for your explanation of Pollock's genius.
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