Has art jumped the shark after WWI?

[downbeatplumb]

There's something in me that I could never rate such a technically simple picture with, say, the best of the old dutch masters and their refined technique and ideas for example about lighting and shadow in the case of Rembrandt and followers. That being said, wife and I spent a day at Tate gallery st. Ives last year, where they exhibit a woman who collaborated with mondrian and prodiced very similar works. We had a guide who explained to us the biographic backgrounds and formal developments that took place between mondrian and her, and it was a very enjoyable way to spend a rainy afternoon. So there's that...

And yet, things like that obviously find their customers. High paying customers as this example shows.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit

But what about a Mondrian? It's as simple as can get.

It seems fairly pleasing as a piece but I rather think that give me a ruler and some paint and I could come up with something similar in an afternoon.

This may be ok to pay a couple of quid for and hang on the wall but great art it is not.

And don't get me started on Tracy f'ing Emin and her unmade bed.