I have to admit that I sometimes (just sometimes
mind) wonder whether artists are trying to make fun of us ordinary
punters. Or maybe the just want to extract money from us.
I thought that when I visited a Picasso museum once where they had a display of seemingly hundreds of plates on which Picasso had painted yellow blobs. They were I think kn own as the 'sun plates'. I suspect they took him a morning to do the lot and he then spent the rest of the day at the bullring. I thought the same thing every time Damien Hirst brought out a new piece of 'art'.
Here's a piece from the recent Roy Lichtenstein, I think it was called 'Modern Sculpture' to compound the offence. I think it's made out of an old trombone or a bedstead or maybe one of those trolley things from Ikea. Some people (including the curator) probably think it's marvellous. I think it's wonderful only because it has my reflection in it, which makes it more surrealist than deco. Anyway, I think it's artsy-fartsy.
So this is my contribution to this week's Picture Perfect.
I thought that when I visited a Picasso museum once where they had a display of seemingly hundreds of plates on which Picasso had painted yellow blobs. They were I think kn own as the 'sun plates'. I suspect they took him a morning to do the lot and he then spent the rest of the day at the bullring. I thought the same thing every time Damien Hirst brought out a new piece of 'art'.
Here's a piece from the recent Roy Lichtenstein, I think it was called 'Modern Sculpture' to compound the offence. I think it's made out of an old trombone or a bedstead or maybe one of those trolley things from Ikea. Some people (including the curator) probably think it's marvellous. I think it's wonderful only because it has my reflection in it, which makes it more surrealist than deco. Anyway, I think it's artsy-fartsy.
So this is my contribution to this week's Picture Perfect.
Odd that it's called 'Modern Sculpture', it doesn't look modern to be, it has a kind of 1920's art-deco look to me.
ReplyDeleteThis is really an artistic shot Neil and you added something in it .
ReplyDeleteHmmmm!
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