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"Modern art in current airports is really boring and bland... This, at least, has soul behind it."
"In 1917, artist Marcel Duchamp shocked the world when he submitted a urinal to a society of independent arts exhibition under the pseudonym R. Mutt, describing it as an art piece titled 'Fountain'."
"I used to think Modern Art was too simple, too easy. It's not like the Mona Lisa. That's art."
"Modern Art can be weird, frustrating, and confusing, but rather than embracing and trying to understand those feelings, so many people choose to let that frustration trick them into thinking the art is at fault."
"Modern art is expensive; from completely white canvases to simple abstract colors, these seemingly basic works can cost you millions."
"The modern art form has given life to different art forms such collage, photography, animation, land art, and performance art."
"Duchamp's Fountain turned the art world on its head."
"The culture that produced the Sistine Chapel has now produced a man duct taping a banana to a wall."
"Isn't that the entire concept of modern art though? It's like subversion... Oh, you want art? Well, I'm not giving you it. I'm giving you this post-post meta-ironic subversion of art."
"We're doing work for some of the top contemporary artists today."
"Kitchens these days are now art installations."
"It's much healthier to acknowledge that there's no one right way to do art."
"People like to just crap all over modern artists but I'm always like oh you know you look at something like Jackson Pollock and people will just be like oh look at that crap art."
"Modern Athens has to offer perhaps the most exciting one is the Contemporary Art scene."
"The heart of the Museum of Modern Art is its collection."
"Modern art is just a game that will make you laugh."
"I've decided to do something about this myself and sneak a modern painting into the most secure, most respected, and most famous gallery in the world."
"Avant-garde works could provoke incendiary reactions, in sharp contrast with the art of the past."
"Digital art is definitely picking up... One of them sold for $136,000."
"Joe Moreau is really one of the 20th Century Masters, he's right up there with Picasso and Matisse."
"I think I've created art. I think this just counts as Modern Art."
"Someone paid 41 million for this painting I think we should start selling Modern Art fillers."
"It's a beautifully placed and well-designed modern art piece meant to delight and inspire."
"There's nothing wrong with that, but I think what they're missing with Joel Peter Witkin is a wonderful sense of doing this modern extremist kind of shock value stuff."
"Stieglitz recognized in Picasso a kindred spirit."
"The art of the present, the art of the now, the modern, was as worthy of people's attention as the venerated art of the past."
"This is modern art, I've made the e-boy filing cabinet for all of your tax evasion needs."
"The museum housed inside the songs of Pompidou has the largest collection of Modern Art in Europe."
"Vasily Kandinsky set the stage for much of the expressive Modern Art produced in the 20th century. His work, both artistic and theoretical, played a major role in the philosophic foundation for the abstract expressionists."
"Through his framing in light, he truly opened the way for modern painting."
"Oh, this is totally not what I was expecting, it's like modern art now."
"Quite possibly Joker's story may be the pinnacle of graphic storytelling in modern times."
"I think weirdcore is the modern surrealism."
"Modern art among other things was an effort to create a language that was more appropriate to the feelings of modern men than the historical mythological religious traditions that had dominated art before."
"I think it's very well sculpted and it does a perfect job of recapturing one of those old school Playmates Ninja Turtles action figures but making it feel modern and awesome."
"The Playstation 5's design is extremely striking, basically a modern sculpture."
"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
"This art breaks from the past, it breaks from tradition, it creates something new."
"The two essentials, form and color, are inseparable in modern art."
"The mind-boggling range of drips, stains, blobs, blocks, bricks, and blank canvases seen in museums of modern art are not random; they are vessels of human intention and they generate meaning ahead of naming."
"One of the greatest modern Japanese painters of our time."
"It's like it's a very, very modern piece of dance."
"What is modern art? Modern art is the type of art in which you must not repeat anything."
"Modern Art can be weird and frustrating and confusing, but rather than embracing and trying to understand those feelings and why you feel them, so many people choose to let that frustration trick them into thinking the art is at fault."
"A lot of people let right-wing propaganda cloud their judgment of modern art."
"Modern art took it all, and people started smearing feces on walls and were like, 'This is art.'"
"The art of our age is conscious organized life capable of seeing and creating."
"Modern art relies solely on present relevance."
"Bacon is not an easy artist; he's not trying to do pretty things with a sunset."
"Paley's collection tells the story of modern art from its radical break with the academic standards of Europe to the daring new schools of New York."
"The modern artist is living in a mechanical age."
"Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims."
"The works of Paul Klee have been of enormous importance in the development of modern art."
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon... the rupture moment between the art of the past and the art of the future."
"One of the finest works ever created by the modern master."
"It embraces the reputation as Tokyo's Modern Art Capital."
"Minimal is the new sophistication; simplicity is the new art; elegance is the new modern."
"I love this kind of modernized style of art, the seats, and just like it's a little bit different, kind of cool. I feel it, I like it."
"What's fascinating in this work is how in his own way, Wood adopts so many of Matisse's innovations when it comes to modern art."
"I just love the simplicity of the color blocks, just these modern geometric shapes."
"This is the basis for pretty much all modern composition."
"NFTs are like if you bought the rights to an image but didn't actually buy the image."
"The strangeness of Modern Art... the strangeness will wear off, and I think we'll discover the deeper meanings in modern art once the strangeness wears off."
"It's like modern art, it's just wonderful."
"Matisse's contribution to modern art was his development of a monumental decorative art, innovative in both its treatment of the human figure and in the constructive and expressive role he accorded to color."
"Without Cézanne, there would be no modern art."
"His work has been presented in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art."