Ok, amateur art buffs, it's time to judge. Which of the following do you consider the most influential work of modern art of all time?
Choice 1: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso
Choice 2: Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
or
Choice 3: Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Lovers of modern art will not be surprised to learn that the white toilet (Fountain) won, as selected by a poll of 500 art "experts."
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignonon was second, Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych was third, Picasso's Guernica was fourth, and Matisse's Red Studio was fifth.
I think they all suck.
3 comments:
You obviously have much more culture and taste than 500 art experts.
Just my opinion, Yetta. Not one of the five makes me happy. Doesn't mean I'm right. Doesn't mean they're wrong. Taam v'rayach and all that.
The reason that Duchamp's Fountain (ok...urinal...) won is that it was so revolutionary. It was meant to show up the notion that an artist was not merely a craftsman, but someone who was gifted in the perception and making of aesthetic choices. He was saying that not only (standard) works of (high) Art have aesthetic value. And that it need not be a traditional painting or sculpted bronze figure to be Art.
No one really had the balls to say that in such a plain and bold manner before Duchamp.
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