[HN Gopher] The Anarchitecture Group
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The Anarchitecture Group
Author : jruohonen
Score : 22 points
Date : 2025-05-09 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| Matta-Clark is one of my favorite artists of the 20th century.
| Splitting, Conical Intersect, and Office Baroque, among other
| pieces, are clever and thought-provoking, even if you think most
| modern art is/was trash. https://whitney.org/artists/3592
| Loughla wrote:
| I want to like modern art, but I never get it.
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| Like splitting; while the line is neat, it just looks like a
| falling apart house. Conical intersect is a big hole in a
| building.
|
| What am I missing? I genuinely want to get it.
| krunck wrote:
| It's not for you to 'get'. It's for the artist to expunge
| ideas from their brain into the physical world to satisfy
| some internal urge.
| pchangr wrote:
| I think it's hard to "get" modern art with no context. I
| think you can start by asking yourself: "what am I looking
| at?".. and just reply yourself .. out loud .. in your mind...
| however .. then .. explore what you feel .. what it reminds
| you of ... etc. It's also sometimes useful to see the
| progression of that specific artist.. if it's a famous
| artists they tend to have a "style" .. you notice that in a
| way they are trying to do the same thing over and over ..
| perfecting something throughout the years so it sometimes
| helps to see their early work. I can recommend the book "what
| are you looking at?" By Will Gompertz.
|
| Having said that... no need to feel bad about "not getting"
| some work of art .. sometimes it's quite literally impossible
| to "get" an artwork if you don't know certain things .. kind
| of like not understanding a word because it's in a different
| language.
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