Abstract Art - why talk about it if you don't get it.

[i-need-a-martini]

I volunteer at a regional gallery and get to meet some wonderful, weird and wacky people.

But the ones that get up my goat are the ones who say "That looks like something a 5 year old would do." and expect me to agree with them.

And whilst we have a lot of community exhibitions that are amateurish enough (so perhaps the comment may be fair enough), the comment is usually reserved for iconic artists in major travelling exhibitions who are extremely well known.

Does anyone here like abstract art? And if you really hate it, why?

[poddster]

This picture is open to critique by anyone who cares to critique it.

I have obliterated the artist's signature and changed the title.

Here is the chance for anyone to be an art critic 🙂

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@*pepe wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

A Picasso masterpiece has sold for $US160 million ($203 million) in New York, smashing the world record for the most expensive art sold at auction.

        

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i wouldn't hang that on my wall if you paid me, but I totally get that others would, and not just because of who painted it.

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That would be a good way to scare the kids - if nothing else. I think I'd have nightmares myself if that was hanging on my wall - or even a print of it..

[janeababe]

I am dismayed!
Surely, those millions of dollars could be better spent on helping the POOR!!! (you know, food, clothes, shelter, health, education)

honestly, where are the priorities?

Australia is no better!

[*pepe]

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@janeababe wrote:

I am dismayed!
Surely, those millions of dollars could be better spent on helping the POOR!!! (you know, food, clothes, shelter, health, education)

honestly, where are the priorities?

Australia is no better!

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i often shake my jead at the money spent on grants for the arts - so many homeless people coud benefit from that money...

[j*oono]

Art galleries are free for all to visit though aren't they?  I haven't been to one for quite some time.

I have no problem with grants for the arts.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@lind9650 wrote:

                                     Duchamp - Landscape

                        

I won't comment, but it makes me think.

Erica

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Now, that's what I call art. Look at that depth, the way the colours meet and blend in perfect harmony. It's obvious what the artist is trying to covey.

[j*oono]

It is beautiful.

[myoclon1cjerk]

I like that Picasso.I wonder how much Guernica would fetch?

[myoclon1cjerk]

Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase is a ripper 🙂

[imastawka]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase is a ripper 🙂

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