it's usually conceptual art people mean by that
and much of what people call modern art is really Post Modern
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:11, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

That
What you said (I'm crap with art, I know)

In general, I get fed up in art Museums. British museums are ok, because you pay what you want and spend as much time as you want. Now, having paid 50€ to get into the Uffizi meant seeing it all in one day. There's only a number of Virgin Marys I can see without feeling sick, and that number is a lot below the 1000 drawings of her they have in the museum.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:14, Reply)

i felt the same way about The Louvre
it was like eating too much pizza. after a while you just want a rest and no more pizza
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I love how everyone goes into the Louvre
goes to see the Mona Lisa, has a coffee and then goes. There are actually other bits of art there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:21, Reply)

there were a lot of
Rembrants when I went
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:25, Reply)

Exactly
I don't mind if I can leave whenever I want, but... we had to queue for 2h to get the ticket (that's after booking it online, so only had to do the short queue). By the time we got to the Venus, I only wanted to tear all the paintings in front of me.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:21, Reply)

it's 50 euro to get into the Uffizi?
fucking hell.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:21, Reply)

Or more,
if they have an exposition, which you can't opt out. And if you don't want to be all day on the queue, you book online, having to pay a booking and reservation fee, so you onely queue 2h when you get to the museum. In low season they're a bit cheaper.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:24, Reply)

christ on a fucking bike
I was planning on going there. Screw that for a game of soldiers, I'll spend it on food and wine instead.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:25, Reply)

That's what I thought when I left
we spent +100€ in museums in Florence; they were kind of ok. The Uffizi... Mark enjoyed it, don't take me wrong. You can go past the 1000 virgins in 5 seconds and get to the nicer paintings quick. I keep thinking I should have let him go there and spend my money drinking wine and eating cheese and parma ham, and enjoying the beautiful weather.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)

There was a young poet from Florence
Who hated all art with abhorrence
He got slightly tipsy
Went down the Uffizi
And peed on the paintings in torrents.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:28, Reply)

I went to the Uffizi last year
There's tonnes of great art in there. Don't remember it costing 50 euros though, think we paid more like 8 euros. Some of Leonardo's stuff was awesome, same with Bottochelli (sp?). Mind you I wasn't as bothered by the number of virgin marys, what I found weird was the amount of paintings of St Sebastian. I mean, how many different ways are there to paint a guy tied to a post shot through with arrows?

Anyway, yeah - like I said my problem was just that there was so much to see... We spent all day there, could eisily have spent a couple of days or longer and not seen everything.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:44, Reply)

true, modern ends about the 70s, doesn't it?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:17, Reply)

who the hell knows
post modernism is all about people not being able to work out what post modernism means and what comes after modernism
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:19, Reply)

there is a level of pretention around the "movements"
which leaves me wanting to kick people really hard in the face, I admit.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:23, Reply)

oh hell yeah
I love confusing people in art galleries by calling them when they make some ridiculous pretentious and badly thought out comment. My mate has a philosophy MA and does this much better than me.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:24, Reply)

you really want to meet my brother.
He's the king of that, and has the stones and artistic talent to take more or less anyone down over it.

I'm trying to find some of his stuff online but it seems the gallery he used to use don't have any of his stuff any more. Shame, as it was all one giant postmodern pisstake and people still bought it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:27, Reply)

I see
If he's doing it that way, then I like the untitled drawing you mentioned above :)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)

You'll love this
He sold what's called an "installation" piece to a guy for a couple of grand. It was 5 blank white canvasses but each had a fluorescent tube and a black stencil behind them. They were all connected to a random signal generator hidden in the wall (hence the installation) that turned the the lights on and off at random, lighting up words on each canvas. If you lit all five canvases, it read "Sometimes" "I worry" "I don't know" "how to" "paint"

absolute 24-carat genius, and people never seemed to get it was a pisstake.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:49, Reply)

That's brilliant
And 2 grand for it! Well done from your brother!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 10:51, Reply)