Sunday, December 19, 2021

On the Politics of Contemporary Art (Why Modern Day Art)

 1. The conceptual ecosystem of  Contemporary Art has been saturated by political messaging.  

2. It forms and deforms the meaning of Contemporary Art.

3. The signifying message of Contemporary Art requires that the art itself pay a virtue signal  tax for being allowed acceptance to the genre.

4. The Contemporary Art ecosystem constrains and governs its aesthetic territory by rejecting alternative art expressions from self-signifying differently.  

5. Its authoritarian stranglehold on the art vernacular creates and distorts cultural discourse.

6. This political aesthetic Kafka Trap operates as a cultural sensory deprivation mechanism.

7. The Contemporary Art ecosystem entangles and engulfs all currently produced art into an inescapable framework of political polarization.  You cannot choose a side.  The side chooses you or NOT.

8. Abstraction and other more esoteric territories have been co-opted. Play or perish.

9. The social politics of Contemporary Art are aesthetically cancerous.  Contemporary Art is a money sink for political and social special interest groups whose promotional interests have nothing to do with art.

10.  Contemporary Art is a self-serving, self-perpetuating system that demands absolute conformity.

This is where artists such as myself fork away from this madness to create a new stream of expression that is called Modern Day Art.

It's a cohort of artists whose byproducts are not described by Identity politics or any other form of political bigotry.  Art for Art's Sake on a planet whose insane asylums have open borders.