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?

[gleee58]

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

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I was being sarcastic. It's a load of rubbish. Tak about 5 year olds! I would be ashamed if my 5 year old did something like that.

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Says you. Others would disagree.

The painting IS beautiful to me and many others I would imagine. The colour, form and composition appeal to me as much as a the technical ability of a Von Geurard appeals to me.

Your post makes me glad I have an open mind and am the type of person that can see beauty in most things. 

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So here we go again .....another elitist remark. Just because one dares to express a different opinion to your.   

I mean... how dare they.     .   

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Why attack the poster giving an honest opinion?

At least Martini is capable and willing to have a coversation.  She didn't feel the need to pretend to like a painting only to come back later and mock those who were attempting to have a conversation with her.

That was an excercise in petty childishness.  

[poddster]

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@gleee58 wrote:

At least Martini is capable and willing to have a coversation.

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And yet you still intervene on another posters behalf even after your own admission that the poster is capable and willing.

Interesting 🙂

[watta*drama*queen]

And why would anyone even pretend to like something they don't?

The same question could be asked of the OP in regard to the visitor

Why attack the poster visitor giving an honest opinion? [albeit only on a chat board]

[raptor_rebooted]

Why attack the poster giving an honest opinion?

exactly.

there was no need for the condescending remark

towards rabbitearbandicoot just because he/she didn't

like the painting.

[gleee58]

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@poddster wrote:

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@gleee58 wrote:

At least Martini is capable and willing to have a coversation.

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And yet you still intervene on another posters behalf even after your own admission that the poster is capable and willing.

Interesting 🙂

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Do you know the meaning of intervene?

There was no intervention on behalf of any poster.

[poddster]

By the way,  do you have martini's blessing to speak on her behalf? I would not have thought so, Martini is very capable in speaking for herself 🙂

[raptor_rebooted]

So what is it about the painting that caused you to select it from the internet and pretend to like it

are you sure it was rabbitearbandicoot that

selected it from the internet?

and as for liking it - did you really not get the

sarcasm?  the painting has no depth. 

[gleee58]

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@poddster wrote:

By the way,  do you have martini's blessing to speak on her behalf? I would not have thought so, Martini is very capable in speaking for herself 🙂

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I did not speak on Martini's behalf.  Nor did I claim to be speaking on Martini's behalf.  

[gleee58]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

So what is it about the painting that caused you to select it from the internet and pretend to like it

are you sure it was rabbitearbandicoot that

selected it from the internet?

and as for liking it - did you really not get the

sarcasm?  the painting has no depth. 

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Apologies to Rabbit is it was not he who posted it from the internet.

Sarcasm?  well no, usually sarcasm is obviously sarcasm.  That was pretend for the sake of it.

[poddster]

Hmmmmm.....

Perhaps you have mind reading skills among you many other attributes, a most desirable skill indeed.

You must have employed that skill to get this, yes?

" She didn't feel the need to pretend to like a painting"