Now, keep your minds open as you read this. I know that most of you will not appreciate this work, nor agree with my ideas, on the first run-through. Keep your eyes open, your mind open, and then let me know your thoughts. Try to be specific about why these works do or do not work for you. And let me know what other works you do like from this time.
Let me know if you want on or off this list.
I plan one more "lecture" on Pop and Minimal art, and how they reacted to the deeper content of Abstract Expressionism, as well as one on postmodernism. Then I may take your requests on other topics.
Something tells me that your father and I share similar tastes in art.
Pollock's works all look like ugly wallpaper. Most of the color block type painters work looks like bad clothing design. None of this would pass the sofa test.
This is the sort of work that gets the national endowment for the arts into the trouble it always is in. (Beside the fact that it is an unconstitutional expenditure of public funds in the first place) This is all trash. Looks like trash and will always be trash. I'm amazed that some people were actually hoodwinked into paying for this stuff. But then again a sucker is born every minute.
Thanks for these threads. I don't post much, if at all, to them, but I read them all and have learned much.
Well, I have tried to appreciate abstract art, but I was never able to cross-over. I do believe it is successful in its interpretation, because the purpose is to make the audience react. I find some of it disturbing, some of it soft, but mostly I find it makes me anxious and annoyed. Just my personal (learned, probably) taste is to seek art that brings me joy, makes me contemplate (which is why I like portraits), or appears to have somber or mysterious qualities. Abstract does not do any of that for me.