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?

[myoclon1cjerk]

" By the way the above is my opinion formulated over many years and I have tested it countless times in many areas"

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[j*oono]

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Which brings us back to the original question.  Abstract Art - why talk about it if you don't get it?

[bright.ton42]

Anyone like to guess who painted this .....a   5 yr old (using a ruler of course)?,  someone famous?

How much it sold for?

To put you out of your misery it was painted by a Barnett Newman who in my ignorance I have never heard of,  and it sold at Sothebys for $45 million.

More here   http://twentytwowords.com/canvas-painted-blue-with-a-white-line-sells-for-nearly-44-million-4-pictur...

Newman overwhelms and seduces the viewer with the totality of its sensual, cascading washes of vibrant blue coexisting with Newman’s vertical “Sign” of the human presence, his iconic and revolutionary “zip.”

Wow. Now why can't I see that?

Again, in my uneducated and foolish ignorance showing itself, I'd say it is claptrap at its best.

But if anyone who has the gift of seeing and understanding greatness can explain it better to me i would be delighted. 

[poddster]

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@j*oono wrote:

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

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And J, what exactly does that question ask?

[*mrgrizz*]

everyone has to start somewhere

[poddster]

Posy #280 explains it 🙂

[icyfroth]

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@j*oono wrote:

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Which brings us back to the original question.  Abstract Art - why talk about it if you don't get it?

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I suppose ppl in certain circles would "get" this too:

Andres Serrano's controversial **bleep** Christ goes on view in New York

Personally, I think it's just taking the pi55

[bright.ton42]

And another great work .....

Blue Fool by Christopher Wool - $5 Million

[bright.ton42]

Icy I couldn't get the link to work??

[j*oono]

Yes bright.ton but you don't have to pooh pooh all abstracts and discussion of art just because of a few paintings that personally mean nothing to you and you don't get what the attraction is to some people.