IS IT ART?

Once I read a text that was about modern art and, honestly, I was surprised by the number of art pieces with absolutely nothing attractive or useful to it. Then, my teacher asked us to do the one thing I did not want to do: write about that pathetic text.
So, let´s talk art.
It is obvious that the concept of art is not the same that we had some years ago. Well, of course, years ago the world had genious, creative real artists. How come the beauty of this culture gets lost as days pass by, how come people judge so easily if our poor present can speak louder than our brilliant past?
Nowadays, everything you do, the basic and the complex, the black and white and the colorful, and even the way your hair falls during your bath making weird shapes that we cannot identify, can be considered art.
I´m sure this is sounding disrespectful and this is not my intention at all. Just like everything in life, modern art has decent and talented artists too, young people who think differently, who want to innovate the way art is done, and we all owe them a big and sincere "thank you" and an even bigger apology. Thanks for the dedication, the creativity and the love they put into painting, sculptures, photos, and so on. Sorry for the way we waste our time paying attention to meaningless representations of those who have nothing else to do and therefore decide to become artists.
Still, I believe people will always look up to the professionals we had in the past and that the world will not let pure art die in the middle of this so called "modern culture", that, as for innovations, seem to be even more old fashioned and than those princess and plebeian stories.
Rui Barbosa once said that is impossible to be inside the civilization and outside art. Anyway, I guess he was right...


Sophia Suh, who thinks Damien Hirst (the fella in the pic) and all his offspring should be doing something else with their lives, wrote this amazing piece. She is a CAE 2 student and she pretty much rocks.