<story><title>FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/01/fedex-shipping-damage-creates-fractured-artworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>The thing I love about modern art is that initial instinctive reaction of &amp;quot;Anyone could do this!&amp;quot;. I have absolutely zero training in art so this might be a infantile opinion, but I am delighted by the pieces that makes me realize &amp;quot;Anyone could do this, but no-one did until now.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;All that to say, I really like this series of works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teawrecks</author><text>Yeah, but for a lot of modern art, I think the claim many people are making is both that &amp;quot;anyone could do it&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;people already have and just didn&amp;#x27;t make a big deal of it&amp;quot;. Ex. When people say &amp;quot;my kid could paint that&amp;quot; they mean &amp;quot;something very similar to that is already hanging on my refrigerator&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/01/fedex-shipping-damage-creates-fractured-artworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>The thing I love about modern art is that initial instinctive reaction of &amp;quot;Anyone could do this!&amp;quot;. I have absolutely zero training in art so this might be a infantile opinion, but I am delighted by the pieces that makes me realize &amp;quot;Anyone could do this, but no-one did until now.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;All that to say, I really like this series of works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oehpr</author><text>One thing to keep in mind is the context you&amp;#x27;re observing this in.&lt;p&gt;Imagine instead, someone makes a post on &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;DIY&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;DIY&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; about how they connected some glass panels together and shipped them in fedex boxes. Then put them in their living room on top of the boxes they shipped in as an art piece.&lt;p&gt;The next place that post would end up is DIWHY. The reason anyone thinks its a truly inspired meaningful commentary on modern times is simply that it&amp;#x27;s being presented as such. It&amp;#x27;s on a clean floor, with professional photography, with a news article about it. The context, the author, and the opinions of the people around you, all work to subconsciously influence your opinion.</text></comment>