But look what we did buy with your tax dollars.
Sean Scully’s paintings are a lot better than this sculpture. The stripes are his signature; they don’t have to do with the American Flag.
The subtleties of the lines are really nice in his oil paintings, with lovely colors. This is not a good piece, in my opinion, and I don’t think that in this time of budget crisis this should have been purchased.
It does take a lot of work to understand modern and contemporary art. It is not all bad; some of it is wonderful. But I don’t have the time here to fully develop my defense of modern art....