Werk Ohne Autor

I think this post spoils the movie in a way. It can provide different experience to somebody else.

I have watched the movie. Although art is not somethig I know much, I have a couple of thoughts about art after the movie.

It is about making a name

So the stuff modernists produce by just exploring the medium before others done it is worth as much as random numbers. But the name can make it winning lottery ticket numbers.

They make a name by being first at something and their stuff magically gains some market value among those who invest into art.

The movie is honest about art

Like the guy selling his wallpapers scene shows the face of masses who will buy and pretend that anything has value just because it is sold to them properly.

There are some weird and dramatic scenes

I do not watch stuff while being immersed into it these days so I ignored most of such scenes.

I am not watching movies for exaggregated stuff and wow-effect or even to be influenced in any way by the stuff.

I wanted to watch a movie about art and it is a great choice for me as somebody who is new to the topic.

Architecture

Recently I started to pay attention to soviet architecture artifacts around. I started to be interested in the topic. And after the movie I also started to be ok about even boring but orderly stuff.

I am not sure what to think about the shift.

Soviets

The movie showed the contrast between soviet and modern western art at that point. Ideas-wise I am not with soviets but in the movie if I ignore “prodaganda” aspect I prefer conventional stuff soviets did.

Too Different

The movie shows that that avant-garde stuff is something too different. It is as different as using car beeping for safety in traffic and using it for getting some kind of senses overflow they do in the movie.

My View On It

So this art is supposed to explore outside of rational but personally I do not buy that it actually provides it.

I suspect it is just being sold properly and more likely it explores humans status signaling and behaviors in modern city.

Freedom

Dispite my scepsis over the value of this art itself I have a point about it’s relation to something valuable. It takes some value in it being by-product of free artists. And free artists are by-product of abundance, prosperity and freedom generated.

So it is like a token signifying something good (abundance, freedom) even though it is only a byproduct of it.