Creative Acts

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In my opinion every work of art is one big mass of opinion.

Disgust
One of the most important ideas I get from your post is that art does not necessarily has to be something beautiful. According to Modernism and Post-Modernism it can evoke any emotion, including disgust. By creating a certain feeling you are creating an aesthetic experience. But there are two things I disagree with.

Angry and Sad
First of all, an emotion is an emotion but not necessarily an aesthetic experience. If I find something beautiful it does not create that higher feeling of boundlessness. I do not feel exalted when I disgust something. I am not in rapture if I'm having an opinion on something. When I see contemporary 'art' I mostly feel angry and sad. Angry because of the selfishness of contemporary artist (not even the art itself). Why does the artist think himself such an important person I have to look at his opinion in public over and over again (Loesje posters are humble in comparison with many of these contemporary pieces of 'art')? I find it arrogant, because many pieces of modern art are not chosen to be seen (they are not in a museum), but are forced upon the people by placing them in public places, modern architecture being the worst of all.
Sad because, in my opinion, this arrogance is destroying creativity. Surely Andy Warhol had some fine ideas, but the only thing contemporary 'art' is doing is copying people like Andy Warhol, Picasso and Mondriaan. We already had vacuum cleaners in showcases, we already had the whole hexadecimal colour panel on canvas but what does it say? What does it create? It's pure individualistic opinion, forced upon an other individual, with either the claim that if I dislike it, I'm in rapture, or that I mustn't disregard the freedom of expression. There is nothing wrong with the freedom of expression, but in my opinion, 'artists' could be more humble with the way they force their creations on the public.

Everything is Nothing
The whole problem(Post-)Modernists left us is their claim that anything can be art. This remark destroyed art, because everything is nothing. Art becomes blurred in the grey society (despite the many colours contemporary art uses).

Individual & the World
It is true that the Modernists had some great ideas that changed the world. I'm still of the opinion that Modernism has been more important than the famed Renaissance in terms of human development. But those ideas are now being used as an excuse to make almost everything in the name of art. It is true that the only way out of the hermeneutic circle of (Post-)Modernism is individualism. But the paradoxical thing about this is that one cannot leave the world out, because one is part of that world (also a Modernist idea).

Therefore, one should focus on creation and leave the 'art' to time.