The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

Not good. Modern art still lacks visual impressiveness, despite how much Mr. Esplund insists it has meaning and story. You just can't have a balloon under a blue light come close in value or worth to something like the Last Supper, or the Birth of Venus. Overall, if there is some intrinsic worth to these “works of art” in terms of their message, it certainly doesn't make them valuable. If message alone made art valuable, and message can be found in a splatter of paint which was dropped on a canvas, then art is the most worthless form of telling a message. It