Exploring the impact of conceptualism on art How Duchamp's legacy challenges notions of good and bad

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[horbagger]

I’m really enjoying your “flipping tables in the temple” trend in these videos. Keep it going - you’re doing a bigger public service than trash pickup.

[Beehive]

Duchamp got rejected by some painting show. So he got pissed off and started on that track.

[artemisofperils]

Well, my man; skill and art are not necessarily synonymous. You can make artistic decisions that take little effort and still producs art as long as it elicits emotion from the viewer. Quality is a misused word that denotes the state of something *regardless* of positive or negative connotations. You can acknowledge a piece of work for any of its "qualities, " whether it's because of the effort and or skill required to make it, the insight it poses, the questions zit asks, the simplicity in its nature. "Good and bad" is irrelevant if it makes you think about or appreciate it. I don't believe contemporary art is fading due to any new idea individually, rather an evolving landscape where ideas that bring forth stronger reactions are more important in an environment so thoroughly saturated with skilled contemporary works.