#intellectually I understand that Duchamp's 'Fountain' was meant to challenge What Art Is

[teaandinanity]

ugh god I KNOW hating modern art is a fascist dogwhistle but also

every time I see something about it I’m just like

okay

but

I DO hate it

#not all of it but enough that I am consistently irritated by the feeling I am being told 'you just don't GET it' #they are of course correct; I do NOT Get It #intellectually I understand that Duchamp's 'Fountain' was meant to challenge What Art Is #but conceptual stuff mostly just makes me want to bite someone #and flat color fields are not meditative they give me the same feeling I used to get #in LA #because the sky had no goddamn clouds and I felt like it was going to eat me #both of these feelings can be easily summarized as: I hate it #babble tea (blacklist this for less chatter) #this brought to you by seeing multiple things the last two weeks #also please don't take this as approval of people destroying artworks #it's absolutely not #other people can and should love what they love #but #my brain weasels and I Do Not Vibe with most modern art #and I'm very tired of feeling like people are saying #'try harder to like it; it is morally unacceptable to dislike it' #and I do feel fairly strongly #that if I am willing to embrace 'let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' on behalf of others #they should be willing to accept 'let my rabid brain weasels hate what they hate so they don't gnaw their way out of the enclosure'