WGAFFAAFBSOAFBCAWPADTCCF: A Modern Art Appreciation Game
A downloadable game
Who Gives A Flying Fuck About A Fucking Black Square On A Fucking Blank Canvas And Whose Pretentious Ass Did This Commentary Come From: A Modern Art Appreciation Game is an analog modern art gallery tour simulator. A six-sided die will make modern art for you. Your goal is to interpret rooms full of art, because the curator said there's a big overarching theme and you really want to find out what it is.
It requires from 1 to every player on the planet to play, though multiple players is the recommended mode of play. All you need is a die and something to jot details down with. It takes about 10 minutes to an undetermined amount of time to play, depending on how hard you want to appreciate art.
This does not create actual works of art. But it does have a sequel: WGAFFAFCLHAOOACAWWPATDFTB: A Modern Art Valuation Game.
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Looking at art is supposed to be free!
It is - AT A PRICE. Whenever someone buys this game, this pool will have a freely available copy thrown into it.
예술은 자유로워야 한다!
하지만 공짜일 순 없다! 농담입니다. 이 게임이 판매될 때마다 여기 공짜로 받으실 수 있는 티켓이 추가될 겁니다!
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Development log
- 미술관 가지 마세요!Jul 29, 2022
- Modern Art Modernartonanza?Jul 28, 2022
- Sequel!Jul 27, 2022
- A Play LogJan 18, 2021
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Here is some cut material. I planned to make it the last section but what I had down was too good.
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HEREISSOMEPROPAGANDA
So, like, I’ll be real quick. Otherwise I’ll rant about this forever.
I failed my art history class in college. TWICE. Couldn’t be bothered to learn about dates and schools and movements and shit. The first time I flunked it, I figured “oh, well, maybe I should just study harder!” The second time I flunked it, I realized the course was killing my love for weird art. Like, holy shit. I don’t need to know what other people thought and felt about art to know what I think and feel about art. They were getting in my way!
My school had a small museum. There was a painting by Robert Motherwell. I don’t remember which one anymore. I recognized the name and decided to pay attention to it because I’ve been reading the textbook talking about Robert Motherwell, about how he was influential in this way and that way. The book had picked him specifically as a case study for… something. I don’t remember.
The reason I don’t remember anything I read about Robert Motherwell is because I saw his shit. Nothing outside the painting mattered at that moment. For that moment, the world was only the motions of black paint upon blank canvas, the dynamism apparent in huge splashes, the stillness embodied by empty spaces, the sheer size of the painting. For that burning minute, it was just me and the painting on the wall.
Nobody else was there to teach me the history of the painting.
Nobody else was there to teach me about the place Robert Motherwell had in art history.
Nobody else was there to teach me about what it meant.
I was looking at that painting and I had my own ideas, and I knew from the depths of my heart that my own ideas were not wrong. They were truer than anything and nobody could invalidate them, because I experienced them.
I fucking love that black square on the blank canvas thing. I hope to see it with my own eyes one day after reading and hearing about it for decades. I want to have my own ideas and emotions about it, like some spiritual fuck-you.
That’s why I love this modern art bullshit. Nobody knows what the fuck is going on, so I get to have my own ideas. There is no sense to it. That’s why it makes sense. I get to decide the whole thing.
Maybe it’s some ego trip or something. I don’t know. I fucking love modern art.