Basically rich people spend millions on random art to launder their money, so they don’t have to pay taxes since it counts as a donation/charity.

Before, I do not understand why modern art is very expensive. But after watching this, I still do not understand why modern art is so expensive.

To me, this is a slap in the face for every hard working, underpaid animators and comic artists.

I remember having spent about two weeks on a painting that would go towards me college gallery. I wasn't expecting to win anything but I was just happy it got shown. It was a very emotional piece that I spent much time and thought towards. Only for my work to not just win anything, but not even make it in the gallery. Instead this guy walked in with 50 or so paintings of simple lines and colors and he would explain his "thought process" on it. None of it made any sense, just giberish. And of course he received pats on the back and money out of it. It was extemely discouraging. Unless you have connections, money, or power, your dream as an artist will die with you.

As an artist I find this.. how do I say it, sarcastically irritating.

My art teacher told me this quite a while ago and i still remember it until now for how great it was. "Modern art isn't about art, it's about the artist. First, you have to make yourself known and apreciated by actually making good paintings and then you can make modern art because people will buy it because it was painted by you, not because of how it looks. " Amen

In short: the art doesn't has value, the artist has the value!

I went to the Chicago Art institute and stood in awe. Literal AWE looking at the paintings by Van Gogh. You can get so close that you can see every brushstroke. Then we went to the modern art side and I felt sick. Not only were the paintings pointless. But so many gave me the creeps. I got out of there as soon as I could.

I have a painting to sell. Its a white canvas that wasnt even touched by paint. I call it nothingness. Starting bid is 5 million.

And they still didn't give a "valid and logical" reason why art is expensive.

Everytime i see modern art i Just sit and think of how hard I worked to learn the techniques of the masters. And how many years of dedication that took. Its so infuriating

I don't think random paint spills should cost this much. However, I do abstract art that is created purposefully with emotion and with the end design in mind when I begin. Now that is abstract art that should capture the heart.

I feel bad for all the artists with actual skills and creativity being unnoticed out there

Van gogh died thinking he was never good enough with no recognition yet these people literally just splash paint on the canvas and get famous. It's honestly sad.

As someone who paints acrylic paintings over the course of days, even looking at the modern “art” leaves me unsettled. Experimenting with colours is another thing, but selling it for this insane amount of money is absurd, because I find absolutely no way for it being worth that much. I don’t find this art, I simply find it colours slathered on a canvas. The main reason why I hate this is because the actual, real art, the detailing, the colour schemes that took actual time and effort are being overlooked because of this. For me, random brushstrokes will never be equal to a detailed work.

I'm an artist, and I'm sure their are many others artists here like me who will agree, that when we display our works we show a certain amount of pageantry in our techniques, the scale of complexity and as such becomes a culmination of something that can't simply be replicated by just throwing paint, making a cube or letting our children create havok for half an hour in a room with some paints and a canvas. For me arts about mastering the capture of a feeling and translating it on the canvas with the finesse of that expression, putting it before an intended audience and having them feel the same way by reading it as I did painting it, it's not about alienating your audience and then flaunting it's price! This is the reason why I give much of my works away for free! In protest to spite this ridiculous trend

What normies see: shitty art What rich people see: tax evasion

As an artist I feel so hurt. We spend hours upon hours working on a piece, trying our level best to create a beautiful artwork that people would look at with awe and wonder, then there are these fake ass imposters who shit all over a canvas and have the audacity to call it art n say things like art isn't about beauty. Don't give me bs. People like these and the ones who buy their 2 cents worth shits are the reason why real artists are struggling today.

I think one of the biggest challenges in fighting the undeniable degeneracy of modern art is that it's really not enough to point out the laziness of the work. To really be effective in your criticism, you need to shift your focus towards modernism itself.

A portrait painting still has an edge over photography, as a painting can show how you wish to be represented; a camera shows what is actually there. Telling people what they want to hear can be a valuable skill.

I’m an artists and I do realism, and when I’m drawing realism it takes me time a precision, getting the exact colors right, and making sure all the proportions are correct. Just seeing someone splatter some paint and calling it a day kind of irritates me because artists that are struggling because people don’t find realism as fascinating as contemporary art struggle

Its expensive because someone has to launder a large amount of money.

Love the part where they explained why modern art is so expensive

Because people that hold a high amount of wealth need to ‘clean’ their assets. In other words, money laundering for rich people.

I watch this whole video but still don’t get why it’s so expensive

Buyer: Truly a masterpiece...the artist must have thought long on this...I can feel their thoughts touching me spiritually. Artist: haha paint go sploosh

Art can’t be recreated even by the same artist. And even if it is recreated it’s merely just another creation. All art is one of a kind❤️

The idea that we should be highly rewarded for a small amount of effort has made its way into almost every aspect of life

Most of us are mad because if we do the same thing it's called trash. But if someone with a fancy name does it, it's considered art

Feels like the secret of modern art is not the art skill itself, but the skill about how good are you at persuading people into something

i thought my comment on this topic would make me seem uncultured and uncivilised but its good to see that the comment section is filled with comments from people that have common sense !

I paint for my self, i build my own frames and my home is my gallery. I dont feel like sellling or showing anything, they bring me joy. My wife loves them so they will never be sold. So with each painting my happiness grows.

My theory: after what happened with hitler, art schools started accepting anything and everything in order to avoid another world war

Abstract art is the “I’m not like the other girls” of the art world.

The truth is that most artists starve. Most of the comments say artists are scammers but 90% of them work really hard and don't get any money for their art. I'm an artist myself, I work hard and don't sell anything. Works only sell for millions after the artist is dead. So stop saying it's a scam, art don't do you any harm, on the contrary.

Money laundering and people who are able to hallucinate random stories from simple daily products

I used to be a modern artist back when i was 3-4 years old and eating paint and dirt

Art (drawing) is to deeply feel each stroke, color, and line. It depends on each perception and develops successfully according to the popularity/price of the painting.

The back of my notebook: finally, a worthy opponent

I am 22. I can proudly say that I am modern artist since 20 years.

“It’s not about the destination. It’s about the journey “ - modern artists

There are countless stories of ‘installation art’ being thrown out by the cleaning staff at museums who mistook it for the garbage it was. If something can’t stand on it’s own merit, without explanation as to why it should be appreciated or admired, it doesn’t deserve to be called ‘art’.

This makes me so angry... That shitty art is being sold for millions where amazing artists I follow sell artworks for a 100$-500$

I really wish I would’ve kept the masterpieces I did in kindergarten. 😔

"I could do that" + "Yeah but you didn't" = MODERN ART

"No matter what the artist intended, art is now seen as an EASY INVESTMENT by many (really the GALLERIES), and COMPANIES HAVE APPEARED TO TREAT ART PURELY AS AN ASSET FOR FINANCIAL GAIN." INSIDER BUSINESS

When the woman said, 'Art was never about beauty, it never has been.' really pissed me off.

It actually pisses me off that there are genuinely talented artists out there but shit like this is what is people are willing to pay millions for.

“Art isn’t about beauty, it never really was” Italian Renaissance: Am i joke to you?

"Art isn't about beauty." Modern art in a nutshell, ugly.

Great abstract art work!! And very informative video👍👍 Thanks for wonderful sharing 🌲🌹

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. -Marcel Duchamp

Even the way they paint makes me cringe, it's like they don't even care. Just smearing paint all over

I agree. Art isn't about Beauty. It can be grotesque, terrifying, sorrowful, or grating. Art is about feeling something. And when I look at these squiggles and shapes - I feel nothing.

I have really fallen in love with the contemporary art movement and work to expand on the works of the greats before me in my own art work.

Who else found this video to be completely unconvincing?

The back of my Notebook has more personality than these.

If the artpiece doesn't touch your soul or speak to you, it's just decor and nothing more..

It MUST be some kind of money laundering scheme.. I mean 99% of 'modern art' literally looks like a child did it, and ANYONE could make something that looks either the same, or better with NO skill required whastoever.

DaVinci would have died again seeing this kind of art.

Art is inherently a balance of colors and shapes. What makes it special is the idea and feeling it brings to the person viewing it. - To have a work of a lifetime is not an easy thing. it's sometimes a matter of luck. - It is because of such rarity that it becomes so expensive.

If i give my 3 year old daughter she will exactly draw a modern art Some modern arts are beautiful but.. i dnt consider scribing as a modern art n my point

Is it just me or did no one say anything during this video? I didn’t hear a single explanation as to why it’s expensive

My older brother: goes to art college Also my older brother: modern art is trash

In my opinion, _most_ of those arts have meaning, we’re just haven’t found out. But it’s the effort put into them that make them cost nothing. Pick a job, any job, say a teacher, you delivered education to people, but all you did was writing a quantum mechanic question on the chalk board and sitting there looking at the class without actually teaching. At the end of the month you would still get paid. You could ask for more if the class found out the answer themselves.

I am amazed of how found people are of totaly white walls in their homes, but ofcourse everything above a few £100's are crazy to pay.

Meanwhile There are many beautiful traditional artwork all around the world which are on the brink of disappearing. Sometimes I just don't understand people.😭

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity" - Albert Einstein

Thank you kindly 🙏🏻 this is actually an original song I came up with in open G tuning , I remember it took me around 40 attempts to play it and record it without hitting the wrong string . 2 yrs later I can't seem to remember how to play it

Potrait arts, Landscape arts, Sculptures like the Renaissance period arts based on various events and mythology I admire them

Whats sad is there are actual artist with amazing talent being overshadowed by these 10 minute "abstract" paintings

“It’s not easy being an artist in London” ....paints messy circle.

Ive changed my mind on art over the years! It goes paint a realist painting? A camera can do that done right? So no need to paint exactally what you see a phone can do that now! So it has to be more abstract? Because you cant take a picture of what is not there! So mixed media is a form I love

As soon as money becomes the most important, or even a considerable factor in anything, absurdity comes along as rain follows low pressure.

This what happens when you give every kid a gold medal.

_splashes paint on canvas_ _sells it for 100 million_ "Why would we buy this?" "It represents society and life" _sold_

It’s actually a way of moving money around globally. Buy a painting for 10 million here in the US ship it to a “buddy” in Russia and sell it there . No one questions shipping a painting to Russia but try shipping or transferring 10 million dollars without problems.

Paintings with a vivid image on it would someday be a history because there’s a possibility that abstract art would takeover the future.

I remember watching a news report many years ago where they took paintings made by elementary school students and put them in art galleries. It was hilarious to watch the "experts and critics" comment on how much depth, talent, skilled, etc, the artists were.

Modern art is still the dumbest concept and you can not change my mind

4:28 The actual reason for the increasingly crazy amounts spent on art pieces - the rich keep getting richer, they have more money to spend and this drives up the cost of art.

Man this means I was an artist in my early school days.

I mean like, i dont know about this kind of "art", but people need to appreciate more comics artist who literary draw and thinking about their comic story.

I made art like this many years ago, I was about 4-6 years old! 😂 🎨

I can't wait to see this market bubble for abstract "art" just get destroyed.

Imagine going to art school, studying and practicing hard to be the next Leonardo Da Vinci. Then imagine making a painting you put your heart and soul into it for 46 years, only to be bested by some squiggles because some dude had a heart attack and the “artist” stole it.

"Art isn't about beauty." apparently it's about crap, or what?

Yeah right...when i was 5, I did my incredible modern art all around the walls of our house, but in return i only got my mom's flying chappal :)

The reason that modern art that dosent even look that good is expensive is cous last time they rejected and artist they started a world war…..

I’ll give you a better title: “Why Modern Art Is So Ugly?”.

And that’s why local artists who actually have talent can’t sell their art 💁🏻‍♀️

Hey, thank you for passing those laws, greasing those gears or whatever the hell you helped me with. Now I noticed your niece made an ahem interesting painting and well I think I'm gonna buy it for say.. 10 million, sounds good?

if this is art, fart is a concerto

It would be interesting to see an experiment done involving a modern artist’s work vs. 3 random passersby instructed to imitate said artist’s work, and see whether a room full of social elites are able to differentiate the authentic one full of “meaning”. I reckon everyone would just start bidding on the spot.

“Art isn’t about beauty, it never really was” Definition of art: the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Explain this then

When the inner child is let out to play.

Wow! So my years of practicing anatomy, shading, lighting, design, perspective, coloring and environments fundamentals are just a waste, all i need is to buy paint platter and paint random shapes on a canvas and i would be a billionaire.

never did i look at a piece of modern art and say “wow so much painstaking work must have been put into this art and it’s definitely worth the over 10 million dollars it costed”

It’s worth a lot of money because at least some segment of the population has decided it’s worth a lot of money. Take some rare Star Wars action figure, for example. All it’s made of is plastic and it’s probably not much to look at but it represents so much to so many people- childhood memories, hopes, dreams, etc. It sounds corny but that’s what it is. Then others buy it simply to use it as an investment and might not have any emotional attachment at all. Same thing with modern art only the large majority of people don’t know the lore and the journey behind each painting so they dismiss it out of hand because they don’t know what they’re looking at. All they see is the thing itself. So why are the prices for modern art so out of control compared to other collectibles? Because its fans are likely ridiculously rich. Being interested in modern art probably means you’ve been educated in rich people culture and is sort of seen as one of those rights of passage into the elite world same as wine tasting, yachts, sports cars, big ass houses and private jets. And yeah there’s also the money laundering thing. It’s all part of that world that no one but the 1% is privy to, so we don’t understand it.

Watching the video, I was reminded of the folktale 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' It's time to say the truth: this is not art. It's something else, but not the kind of art we want to preserve as heritage for future generations.