The Modern Day Art Manifesto - (a work in progress)
Modern Day Art is an evolutionary succession away from Contemporary Art.
It can be referred to as #mdArt, #mdA, #notContemporaryArt, #nCA, or #modernDayArt.
Two aesthetic subsets of Modern Day Art are #postContemporary and #newModern. Both refer to esoteric Modern Day Art ecosystems. These obvious manifestations do not preclude more existing and future sub-genres.
All art creation exercises additive, subtractive, transformational, spiritual, temporal, theoretical, cognitive, and other forms of artistic agency.
In the case of Modern Day art as an aesthetic ecosystem, it subtracts from Contemporary Art - Identity Politics and the hubris of toxic academic entanglement. Consider its relationship to Contemporary Art's Art World as an orthogonal social entity wholly disengaged from those trappings and expectations. The creation, quality, and intent of Modern Day Art is not to satisfy an Art Market but rather an Art future while mindfully acknowledging the importance of providing the artist's means to a dignified living.
Modern Day Art promotes an exclusive Art for Art's Sake aesthetic.
The subtraction of political identity virtue signaling neutralizes holding galleries and art patrons hostage to the discriminatory tribalism of gender, age, moral superiority claims, "saving______" platitudes, and so on. The Art is intended to feed aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual hunger.
- Frank Krasicki, May 2021
In order to understand what you're talking about here, do we need to follow all those Twitter threads? Or do you think you could sum it all up in plain English? Are you trying to say you're fed up with the new Socialist Realism that's captured the contemporary art dialog lately?
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delayed response.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what Twitter threads you are referring to.
There is no Contemporary Art dialog these days. Its a monologue of aesthetic liberal fascism that denies the existence of actual art by suffocating the artistic ecosystem.
It makes more sense for serious artists to just step out of that stupid loop and create art in whole different ecosystem, vernacular and set of metrics that excludes the tsunami of bullshit.