“A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne
By Rich Kozlovich
Personally, I have no idea what people see in modern art, abstract art, or whatever it's called. And it's been my view for decades Picasso and his ilk stunk as painters, but were amazingly brilliant as self promoters. Their stuff is ugly, and incomprehensible. I'm not all that crazy with impressionist art either.
After all the clabber I've read and heard about how this stuff is "inspirational", I find it ironic that a Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years, and it will have to stay that way or it may become damaged. I have no idea who Mondrian was, and now that I've seen his work, I have do desire to know who he was.
I have to ask. If art is based on feeling, what in the world was Mondrian feeling? Here's a picture of the piece in question.
Wow, so it's upside down? Really? How can anyone tell? Now, what could be more inspirational than that? But why would hanging it right side up damage it?
“The adhesive tapes are already extremely
loose and hanging by a thread,” Meyer-Büser said. “If you were to turn
it upside down now, gravity would pull it into another direction. And
it’s now part of the work’s story.”
Wait, did I understand that correctly, it's all adhesive tape? And it hangs in a museum? For inspiration? Imagine that.
It's been
said there's no accounting for taste and no questioning it. Well, if
they're talking about food, I agree entirely. If we're talking about
art, I have to wonder if it's inappropriate to question whether of not people who think this is "art", and worth being hung in an art museum, have a screw loose.
Now, if we subscribe to Paul Cézanne's definition of art...this is art..... and not one person on the planet can mistake how it's to be hung.
More Norman Rockwell.
