https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/1bpaiae/shoot_um_moma_what_is_this/

Rothko's Untitled. I don't like abstract expressionism but he's probably the technical height of it from how much work actually went into that.

  • happybadger [he/him]
    hexagon
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    8 months ago

    Sure, but because it's now a 55 year-old idea. If I plagiarise a book written in 1969 and submit it to a publisher they'd also reject it. If you submit a genuinely new idea to an avant-garde gallery then you wouldn't be turned away.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      That's true, but he's saying that 99.9% of people living in 1969 would also have been tuned away

    • edge [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      That's why I said instead of Rothko.