Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism

I know the music levels get a little dicey at points, sorry about that y'all.

I feel like ‘Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?’ Isn’t just a piece of art. It’s a question that was answered in exactly the way the artist expected it to be answered.

the artist was probably like: " You fell into my trap, vandal. You have made my art, finally complete. "

If an artist titles their painting "Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue" and some fearful person can't help but attack it... that piece of art kind of found its fulfillment. It's like a circle has closed. Why, oh why would anyone want to "restore" that image. Leave it the way it is, damn it.

I saw an art that sold for a decent sum that simply had “You could have made this but you didn’t. I did.” scrawled childishly in multicolor on white background. I was like “well played, art person.”

I feel like Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue shouldn't have been restored. I don't hate the piece, but i believe that the point it tries to get across is even stronger when it is in tatters. In its pristine state is merely asks the question "who is afraid of red yellow and blue" but in a damaged state it tells us exactly who, and instead asks "why are they afraid of red yellow and blue, and what do we do about it"

I mean if art is meant to awake some deep feelings in humans, and some dude is loosing his shit over red rectangle, I'd call it succesful

there’s something poetic, in a regrettable way, about the destruction of ‘who’s afraid of red yellow and blue’ demonstrating exactly who was afraid of red yellow and blue

“A man who could also be titled Piss Christ is Paul Joseph Watson” absolutely kills me every time. Some pieces of writing are flawless and this line belongs to that hallowed pantheon

It feels almost ironic that people were, in fact, afraid of red, yellow, and blue.

The term is obviously about ethnicity, but I still find "white supremacists angry at primary colors" conceptually hilarious.

I saw a tiktok about this painting/painter recently. The video was captioned something like, "me and my friends standing in front of art at the museum that we think we could do." One of the paintings was by Newman. And thankfully someone else reacted to that video to tell the story of 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue'. This kind of attitude makes me so sad. People look at a piece of art and say "I could do that," and rather than trying, they just denigrate the art/artist and end it there.

the 'degenerate' art wasn't just taken from galleries or 'purchased' as the propaganda states, it was also seized by the police during targeted raids on artists studios, with thousands of pieces being destroyed. you often hear about 'lost art' from world war 2 as if there is a burred bunker somewhere, but the reality is that what wasn't absorbed into private collections of nazi sympathizers, was likely burned. a lot of the artists were also later imprisoned, and even in the face of all that, historians have still recovered dozens of examples of 'illegal' art (aka art not authorized by the nazi's) being made IN the camps, some of which are now on display in the holocaust museum.

People aren’t fascist for not liking modern art, people are fascist for saying other people can’t.

I’m an art purest if it isn’t painted with a mix of blood, shit, and bugs on a cave wall it isn’t art.

I'm kind of obsessed with the philosophical implications of the vandilization of the painting. no one would do something so childish, so barbaric, so embarrassing, if the painting was purposeless. you cannot feel angry at a painting and then insist that it has no value. it doesn't matter how you feel about what it represents, what matters is that it represents something. there's inherent value in that, that a painting says something substantial that invokes such a strong emotion. and whats the point in destroying the painting? I'm sure the people who were commending the criminal would be furious if you accused them of being afraid of the painting, but they are. they thought of the painting posing a threat, it's existence as some sort of signifier for a worse culture, and, it means it holds some sort of power. it's a symbol to be feared and fought against. they are afraid. they are adhering exactly to the intent of the painting, and are too blinded by ego and elitism to comprehend something so humbling. the vandalized version of the painting works perfectly, probably my favorite piece of modern art.

Excellent video, man. I walked into this video with a general disapproval of the idea of “overly simplistic modern art.” I saw most of it as nonsensical, assuming that the people behind it didn’t have any real creative intent. That changed the second I heard the name “who’s afraid of red yellow and blue?” And i knew exactly what it meant. I gritted my teeth at the mention of fascism since I see people everywhere use it as a distraction in an argument. As soon as you yell out “fascism!” People tend to just stop thinking rationally altogether and pick your side. But the way you explained that you know what fascism is in the first place, the way it works and then how it compare to the ideals of these “politicians” blew me away. I feel changed after this. It’s awesome

If it was up to me, I'd let the painting on the museum. With the deep cut and everything. It's a solid remark that: Yes. People were afraid of Red, yellow and blue.

shoulda left it up and renamed it "I was afraid of red, yellow, and blue."

''He is toxifying whatever water source he's buried closest to'' is so raw