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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 October 2011 04:37:35AM 0 points [-]

The Modern and Postmodern movements in Western art are largely defined by their break from a lot of traditions.

And that is precisely the problem with them. They have nothing to them except rebellion for its own sake.

A lot of people seem to also think "Art" means "highly-involved production of images for the sake of creating scarce aesthetic value" and don't like anything that fails to conform to those rules

If "art" doesn't create aesthetic value, what's the point of making it.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2011 07:37:36AM 0 points [-]

And that is precisely the problem with them. They have nothing to them except rebellion for its own sake. If "art" doesn't create aesthetic value, what's the point of making it.

We do not agree on these things, and I do not highly rate either of our odds of being able to make headway in this argument in a rational sense. So instead I will aim for transparency of content:

Boo thing you said. Yay thing I said.

Your turn.

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