Contemporary Art
There is a widely held view that artistic standards have got (1) over the last 100 years or
so and that contemporary art is (2) a bad way, the cliched response being 'my three-year-old child could have done better than that'. Yet many pieces sell for millions of dollars within the art world. How
can we get to the (3) of this seeming contradiction?
Those new (4) contemporary art should be forgiven for this kind of response, but it is
largely a matter of their ignorance rather than the reality. What needs to be (5) clear is
that contemporary art is at the cutting edge; painting a lifelike picture of a racehorse is no longer an option for
an artist attempting to break new ground. Were contemporary artists to produce pictures like this, we would
actually have the (6) of all worlds - a stagnant and backward-looking artistic tradition.
Having said that, some contemporary art is of poor (7) , but that's true of every art
(8) at any point in history. We can only decide that novels are great, for example, by having
mediocre or bad novels to compare them to.
However, those (9) the top of the contemporary art world are producing innovative and
challenging pieces. At (10) best, contemporary art is as exciting and productive as it's
possible for art to be.
There is, of course, a (11) line between quality contemporary art and pseudo-art. Abstract
pictures produced by cats, for example, have no real place in the contemporary art world. They merely relieve
the gullible and the ignorant of their money.
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