Modern - postmodern

[rene...@dlc.fi]

It's weird how boring modernism sounds when you hear
postmodernists describing it.

The first modern art movement I read about was
DADAism. Or is that medieval? Renaissance?
Classicism? Heck, I do think

DADA

Fluxus

Body art

Performance art

Pop art

and, come to think of it,

Anarchism,

and

Rock'n'roll

were modernist movements.

To me, modernism means (meant?) throwing out
the old and going in search of extremes where no
creature had ventured before.

Of course it produced ghastly, *extremely* bad mistakes as well.
That's the breaks. Dare none, hurt none.
But it had so much power as well!
Like, uh, that Burden dude being crucified on a VW Beetle,
doesn't that make it all worth the trouble? It's what this century
was invented for, right? Mies van der Rohe, Bauhaus, Mondrian,
they all worked just to turn out a world in which in makes sense
being crucified on the back of a cheap car.

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