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I try to look at modern art with similar lens, that way I can accept and tolerate at least some of them while pondering about their effects on me, and even find beauty in few.

But I have to ignore what giants like Rembrandt achieved, how much effort they put in and how universal those messages are. And sure as hell I can't and don't want to ignore that.

I guess I'll stay in the museums of the old masters (but not too old).

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You bring up an interesting point, not all modern art is directed at anyone other than the artist themselves. Its less likely in that framework that a particular artist just happens to create art that most people would also like and create a name for themselves and there are fewer trying to show off an absurd quantity of craftsmanship in a single work.

>I guess I'll stay in the museums of the old masters (but not too old).

On the other hand, I really enjoy the medieval art where there is absolutely no perspective and everything is the wrong size. I'd go to an exhibit just for that.

I am somehow drawn to the old Dutch masters and early Impressionists. Previously, I never was much of an art guy, since I took up photography again I look at art differently. Especially the play with light and shadows, composition amd colours.

I guess the closer paintings are to reality, the more I can take from them, and thus I am drawn more to them. For more abstract works I need time. Strangely, I develop a fondness for some of Dali's work... That being said, when visiting the van Gogh museum, I much preferred his earlier work more resembling the old Dutch masters. Still do.

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