Mathew Collins describes the word beauty from the artist’s point of view in a very interesting way. Beauty from what I was able to understand in the video Modern Art is something that is not used as the main theme of their art pieces and rather the Artist going to a great extends of destroying natural beauty. Rather than painting the natural beauty of landscapes, they are distorted in a very abstract way by taking away the natural beauty of nature and changing it to a very personal and intimate type of beauty that the artists is trying to portray. For example Jean Michel Basquiat completely takes the beauty away from super heroes, symbols and politics than portrays his own interpretation of beauty. Basquiat;s art is beautiful in the sense that he is portraying real and current events that are happening in the world and thus capturing our attention and finding the true beauty that Basquiat is trying to show us. Basquiat is one example of how quote in quote Matthew Collins states “Beauty was found in Art and we stopped looking at it on Nature”.
1). which artist from the Modern Art video sticks closer to natural beauty such as landscapes and people?
2). Can an artist still get famous by painting a natural landscape now days?
3). Are artists known for having drastic deaths? The reason I ask is because I have noticed a pattern such as Basquiats drug overdose and some of them committing suicide such as Van Gogh
4). What is the time period of when Modern Art started?
5). What artist has been the most influential of Modern Art?
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