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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 October 2011 02:29:32AM *  7 points [-]

hating all modern art because one is supposed to hate it.

I don't think this actually happens. In my experience most people who hate modern art hate it because it's more-or-less uniformly absolutely awful. In my experience even the "good" pieces of modern art are only good compared to the absolute drek that is most modern art.

Edit: By modern art I mean "art belonging the the genre commonly called 'modern art' ", not "any art produced since the mid 20th century".

Comment author: komponisto 29 October 2011 10:38:32PM 3 points [-]

By modern art I mean "art belonging the the genre commonly called 'modern art' ", not "any art produced since the mid 20th century".

Specifically, what you mean is "high-status art produced since the mid 20th century that I don't like".