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Wikipedia's art and architecture articles drive me mad sometimes. They can be over-philosophical and utilize deep concepts that non-art majors can hardly decipher.

For instance, I like reading about architecture and I wonder what the next great architectural style will be. According to Wikipedia, Neomodern (T-H-L-K-D) architecture is the newest form of architecture we are seeing now or will see in the near-future. But the article tells me nothing except that it is "a new simplicity" or a return to modernism. I never thought modernism left, to be honest. I read the neomodern manifestos and links on the article, but they do not tell me anything either. The interview with Guy Denning tells me nothing about Neomodernism (T-H-L-K-D) or its influence on architecture. I mean, he sounds like a typical artist who hates the current art world and thinks all the other artists are greedy corporate sell-outs and that his "Defastenism/Remodernism/Neomodernsim/Stuckism" art is the one true art.

I realize this may seem to be an "Annexable" topic, yet it is a symptom of many art and architecture articles (I do like Deconstructivism (T-H-L-K-D) and it's unfortunate Joopercoopers (T-C-L-K-R-D) has flown the coop.). I just wish these articles were more readable to those of us outside of the art and architecture field.
papaya
Wikipedia's articles on "modern" (not Modern) art movements sound like this because those art movements sound like that too. You have to like this quote: "In the same way that it coincides with design, neo-Modern architecture (of which there are still no examples)..."
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