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Someone essentially comparing sculptures to bananas, like apples to oranges.
they could have selected this 2016 work from Jago to represent modern art
https://preview.redd.it/tv5ejk9u27yf1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4769b9e5a2ba7e1356020f6ea192682f0ea5a260
Funny fact: all the sculptures represented and the banana are all made by Italian artists.
Well a sculpture from 2016 wouldn’t be modern art though
I'm sure they meant modern in the literal sense, not in the style way.
Correct it’s called the contemporary art. Modern art ended in the 1950s. Any Artist alive today making work are known as contemporary artists.
Why are art categories so confusingly named? Ever since the 1920s they’ve all basically been called “The Right Now” era, so when you use some word that means the present day everyone is like “No, no, the Present Day era was a span of a few months back in 1974, we’re in the Current Date era.”
Absolutely not lol, everybody can create every kind art even prehistoric art. It's the style that counts not the year.
“In the most obvious sense … ‘contemporary art’ means simply what is happening now: contemporary art would be the art produced by our contemporaries.”
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Sure somebody could imagine making prehistoric art, but they’re not in a prehistory condition. If you are alive today, and you exhibit, your work, the work is called contemporary art. I know I am an artist. I recommend taking our history and you’ll understand what I’m saying.
The banana was from 2019, so....
That’s still not modern art, modern art ended in 1950’s, even post modern was decades ago, we are currently in contemporary era
Is that Pope Benedict XVI.?
Yes. I had to look this awesome piece up, as I hadn't heard about it before. It is called Habemus Hominem and is made from marble. So the sculptor initially created the statue in a more common style as Benedict in papal regalia. After Benedict stepped down he reworked it by stripping the gown and adding that absurd level of details to symbolize Benedicts return to mortalhood. The black of the eyes seem to be set exactly so that the statue seem to look at you no matter were you stand. Here are some more pictures:
www.abcworldwidestone.com/habemus-hominem-by-jago/
I don't think I've ever seen an elderly person in sculpture before. The thinning, papery skin on the arms looks so real.
Or this one, it is giant, hyper realistic and great:
https://preview.redd.it/5nekucl68eyf1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f957133057469f276d1fa2f151c428848687260
Boy by Ron Mueck.
Mr. Boss
Not only that, but whenever you see stuff like the David (first sculpture) compared to anything else you have to remind yourself that its comparison between a historic peak vs a specifically picked weird art from today.
Yea this isn't much different from someone listening to an oldies station containing nothing but top hits and comparing it to whatever is currently on the charts.