whereas a work of beauty is instantly accessible due to the force of its beauty

the lowest person can see it and gain something, even if they do not appreciate its ultimate depth

it's "concept art" that is entirely opaque, and no one really gets it, they just like the exercise of nodding and pretending they get it with a group of likeminded people

and these people, in my view, tend to be elites

there is no true postmodern kitsch either

THINK OF IT LIKE ART ROCK

maybe kitsch level art

IT SEEMS ELITE

BUT REALLY IS SIMPLISTIC

LIKE NEWER GORGUTS

SO

IT ALLOWS THE RISE OF FALSE ELITES

BASED ON POPULARITY/MONEY AND NOT QUALITY

(THESE TWO ACT AS OPPOSITES IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT)

MODERN ART IS SOCIAL ART

SOMETHING TO CHATTER ABOUT

I'll accept it's that, but it's not something for the crowd

it's deliberately not for the crowd, but may carry that conceit, in an inverted fashion

getting into modern art is becoming part of a certain club

ESSENTIALLY

LIKE POSEURS/HIPSTERS AND TREND BANDS

WE SEE THE SAME THING IN METAL

but it's not generalized to clubs in general

it's a very particular club

THREE-CHORD "ESOTERIC" WAR METAL

IS CELEBRATED AS ELITE

is it? It is celebrated by insular clubs as superior, but it isn't widely accepted as being quality or elite or superior

whereas modern art is, even if people don't appreciate it

the situation woud be similar if you had that war metal stuff

and on top of that everyone acknowledged that war metal was the bees knees

while not liking it or getting it

I don't see that as the case

THOSE WHO APPRECIATE MODERN ART

ARE A SMALL QUASI-ELITE

BASED ON THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF THE ART

BECAUSE EVEN IF PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE IT, THEY DEFER TO IT

AND MARGINALIZE THOSE WHO DO NOT

FOR EXAMPLE US

I think that's the main difference, the deference

BUT TAKE THE BLACK METAL EXAMPLE

(DEFERENCE = THE DEMOCRATIZATION; CANNOT OPPOSE WHAT THE HERD LIKES!)