My two current housemates are art majors who love conceptual art... one of them just likes to argue with me about it, but the other agrees with me that conceptual art is just not as accessible as other art - even though its whole point is, supposedly, to be more accessible. She claims there's actually a lot of theory behind it and if you understand the theory than the art itself makes more sense but the problem is that only a few people are interested enough to look into how the movement developed, why it developed the way it did, etc., whereas it doesn't take a lot of extra learning or knowledge of art history to appreciate something because you find it attractive.
Also... I agree that maybe people are just too afraid to say "um wait, this is really silly. I'm going to look at a painting of a meadow".
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Date: 2005-02-25 03:51 pm (UTC)Also... I agree that maybe people are just too afraid to say "um wait, this is really silly. I'm going to look at a painting of a meadow".