{"id":24743,"date":"2011-10-24T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/contemporary-arts-job-is-to-wreck-whatever-came\/"},"modified":"2011-10-24T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:03:27","slug":"contemporary-arts-job-is-to-wreck-whatever-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/contemporary-arts-job-is-to-wreck-whatever-came\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Contemporary art\u2019s job is to wreck whatever came before it.  And from the very beginning after the Old Masters, from then on, each generation wrecked that.  That something that\u2019s pretty and beautiful is probably the worst thing that you could say today in contemporary art about something, unless it\u2019s so pretty it\u2019s nauseating.  <\/p>\n<p>\nSo, and people that\u2026 most people have great contempt about contemporary art and I find that hilarious because I did a piece, it said \u201ccontemporary art hates you.\u201d  And it does hate them because you can\u2019t see it.  You don\u2019t know the magic trick; you haven\u2019t learned the vocabulary, you haven\u2019t learned the special way of seeing something that changes it.  And that is like joining a biker gang; that is.  But you do have to be able to appreciate all kinds of taste.  And the contemporary art that I like best is the kind that initially angers you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>John Waters<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/24050\" href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/24050\">Whole interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/hi-lary.tumblr.com\/\">hi-lary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>An accurate read of a modernist sensibility. Though is Waters a post-modern? Ironic in his critique?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary art\u2019s job is to wreck whatever came before it. And from the very beginning after the Old Masters, from then on, each generation wrecked that. That something that\u2019s pretty and beautiful is probably the worst thing that you could say today in contemporary art about something, unless it\u2019s so pretty it\u2019s nauseating. So, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6r5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}