How to understand modern contemporary art, enjoy it, and not be fooled

<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Modern art remains a mystery to most people — critics, artists and the general public — even after 150 years. This is because everyone believes, deep down, that ‘art’ is really the same thing as ‘classical fine art’, and they find it almost impossible to judge what they see from any other perspective. But there is another way to get the real point of modern art, and it does not involve complex logic or mental gymnastics; it simply involves understanding that what authentic modern art is trying to do is quite different from what classical fine art is trying to do, and that judging modern art from a classical point of view is like judging ‘swimming’ from the perspective of ‘guitar playing’: the two are not related.</p> <p>If you want to understand modern art, you need to understand that, unlike their classical fine art counterparts, modern artworks are basically signposts to imaginative worlds which the artist has uncovered, or discovered, or created — whichever word seems most appropriate. A modern artwork is not really an end-in-itself, to be marvelled at for the manifest technical skill it took to realise it, or the beauty it manages to convey; it is instead more like a film still, or a lobby card, symbolising, </p> <p><a href="https://jakob-zaaiman.medium.com/how-to-understand-modern-contemporary-art-enjoy-it-and-not-be-fooled-d433ce77d2b4"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>