100. Modern Art: Revealing the Hidden Thing

Everyone likes to hate on modern art. Recently Dimes wrote an interesting piece pushing back on this impulse. Since I have decided to retire the “Christian Ghetto Podcast” and integrate all my audio content under the “Seeking the Hidden Thing” banner, why not mark the occasion by having my 100th audio recording under the “Seeking” name also be my first podcast discussion under the actual name of this Substack. I have invited

Dimes

and

Gio's Content Corner.

on to both celebrate the moment and have a discussion on modern art in our present political moment. Maybe it will help you to re-think knee jerk reactions to it and appreciate it in a new light. Maybe it will help you see something you couldn’t otherwise see. Maybe the being of our age will be revealed to you. Here is the piece under discussion:

Utopian Trauma

We also discuss a number of specific pieces. I have included images in the video for those that want to follow along that way. For those that want to listen, here are all the images in order:

Convergence - Jackson Pollock

Marilyn - Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup — Andy Warhol

Self Portrait — Andy Warhol

Made in the USA - Shinkichi Tajiri

Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay - Frederick Varley

In the Northland - Tom Thomson

Mont Saint-Victoire - Paul Cezanne

Water Lilies - Claude Monet

Suicide - George Grosz

Portrait of Bean Ingram - Herbert Gurschner

National Theatre - London, England

Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum

National Theatre — London, England

Aul Residential Complex — Almaty Kazakhstan

A suburb so bland and lifeless that even Google Lens could not identify where this soulless landscape is located.