1) It's a grift. Jewish art dealers figured out they could make money by convincing us that recycled garbage was art - and so they did. Shame on us for falling for it.
2) It's another plank in the program to cause maximum cognitive dissonance. We are told ugly things are worthy of being considered "art." The result is that our brains get short-circuited between what we know to be true, and wanting to be seen as highly cultured.
Again, shame on us for falling for it... but I think fewer and fewer of us are.
We've become so inundated with s*"t, trivial and tasteless products of commercial origin that we've become desensitized to the beautiful or transcendent.
Those sculptures from SUNY Fredonia struck me as tasteless and lazy, deliberately so. Removing beauty from our common spaces and replacing it with ugliness is an effective form of demoralization. I suppose that it's done for obvious reasons.
I think there are two things going on:
1) It's a grift. Jewish art dealers figured out they could make money by convincing us that recycled garbage was art - and so they did. Shame on us for falling for it.
2) It's another plank in the program to cause maximum cognitive dissonance. We are told ugly things are worthy of being considered "art." The result is that our brains get short-circuited between what we know to be true, and wanting to be seen as highly cultured.
Again, shame on us for falling for it... but I think fewer and fewer of us are.
We've become so inundated with s*"t, trivial and tasteless products of commercial origin that we've become desensitized to the beautiful or transcendent.
Those sculptures from SUNY Fredonia struck me as tasteless and lazy, deliberately so. Removing beauty from our common spaces and replacing it with ugliness is an effective form of demoralization. I suppose that it's done for obvious reasons.