• triangle [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The really weird stuff like Duchamps urinal was a reaction to the then contemporary art world and world at large that we live in the looooong shadow of (also the post-modernist stuff chuds rail about was all CIA funded lol, they would've loved Soviet era worker realism). People wanting more realism now is defintely in reaction to the ever growing disconnection between art and life or anything even aesthetically pleasing, so to some extent its pretty normal.

    I, for one, would love a series of paintings of those dope Chinese doctors that were riding horses through the snow to deliver medical help in Xinjiang. Like this one or this one. Or just a series of portraits of just... regular people doing their regular people things like having coffee or working or playing video games. I'm kind of sick of everything being disintegrated into dick giblets to stand for "the patriarchy" or whatever, something more subtle as well as more reflective of modern life would be nice too.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      4 years ago

      I don't think the dick giblets were a feminist statement if I recall, but some kind of social commentary on the human condition and the warped perception of our own bodies vs. idealized visions imposed on us by consumer culture.

      Or dude just wanted to make dick sculptures lmaoo

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      There's pretty compelling evidence that Duchamp claimed the credit for La Fontaine from one of his contemporaries (Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven) fwiw, a lot of the Art World(tm) gets very mad when you bring it up. I have really mixed feelings about Dada as a whole, I think its central thesis about "the world doesn't make sense, why should art make sense" really resonates in the present day — zoomer humor has big Dadaist vibes.

      Part of the problem is that what constitutes Art(tm) is by-and-large decided by the elite