is contemapry art isolating ?

depends on the contemporary art : I like Lucian Freud after all

but if lucien freud could work in most time periods. i knid of mean the more theory based stuff. i like freud too btw

I think generalizing is wrong, hence I would never say I avoid contemporary art. Nor would I say "I like old stuff" like some people say. Age of an art work doesn't validate its value. I do think it is important (for me at least) to know what the artist meant (in some genres, like colour field works).

not sure if i am cultured, but i much prefermuseum of contemp art to nsw aart gallery, it's much more intersting, challenging, entertaining.

I think a lot of the isolation the 'public' feels from contemporary art stems from the fact that your average joe isn't going to have complete knowledge of the theoretical (Derrida, feminism or suchlike) blather that informs a lot of contemp. stuff.

That said, though, I do think a lot of art since the early 70's has stiven to isolate itself as a pre-emptive reaction against its own eventual canonization.

Comtemporary life is isolating.

What Sean said.

yes and no, no and yes.

Am I young or ignorant? I don't know but art in the strictest sense of the word doesnt appeal to me at all.

is there a metropolitan museum of contempt for art?

contemporary means reflecting the present situation - non?

perhaps we're all a little isolated

sitting in the warm glow of the computer screen - shooting random remarks - waxing our witty repartee

this forum life is great for isolationism... you can have endless open ended conversations and nobody butts in to make you feel inadequate

and you can ramble on and on and - you get the picture

I'm saying go play a sport - but at least take a frikkin walk in the woods and feel the brisk breath of ol mother nature...

how far is the nearest wooded glen to you?

isolating for whom? the artist or the viewer?

I feel as if I know this person that I'm being told to forget.