What happened to Art?
Every now and then I go to a great art museum, like the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. I strongly recommend that you do the same.
The Palace of the Legion of Honor has a breathtaking collection of art from the various historical periods, including paintings, furnishings, statuary, porcelain, silver, and other such decorative objects.
For many, many years I have been wondering how any of us could reach the dubious conclusion that "Modern Art" is anything other than the worthless dreck it obviously is. The only conclusion I can reach is that we, as a society, have either lost our minds or we have become unable to see. For examples, please look at Massimo Stanzione's Woman in Neapolitan Costume, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun'sHyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, later Marchioness Wellesley, Claude Monet's The Grand Canal, Venice, and Pablo Picasso's La Petite Corrida. Now, when I say, "look at," I really mean look at. It would be even better if you could go to such a museum and look at the actual art. You would see it even clearer.
I understand that art historians, university professors, and other such deluded fools have been telling us for a hundred years that Modern Art is actually better than the work of the Great Masters. Bunk. Worse than bunk. Bullshit. Art attained true greatness during the Renaissance and maintained it until people with more money than sense began to believe the ravings of madmen about how Impressionism, Cubism, and the even worse junk that has masqueraded as Art ever since is some kind of improvement over the art of the Great Masters.
If you will but GO to a great museum and LOOK at the exhibitions, you will easily see that it is all nothing but a giant hoax. But you do have to be able to look for yourself, without being influenced by "art historians" who are, themselves, obviously blind.
Back to my home place.