Houshphandzadeh wrote:Word. I'm not too crazy about the work either, though I think they can be neat to look at, especially compared to some of the other stuff that fills modern galleries (at least compositional failures from distant centuries are buoyed by interesting historical subject matter). I don't consider it "not getting it," just "not liking it." Just like music or literature, you can't be expected to enjoy everything just because it made it into the canon. They just put this huge Miro sculpture at one of the entrances to my library that makes me want to puke every time I pass by.
When I'm feeling reactionary about this kind of thing, I think about Wolfe's the painted word. Then I go back and think about how absolutely mind numbingly boring 99% of those Renaissance paintings really are, and how they were in many cases manufactured assembly line style, with various apprentices donig various bits of them, and I realize that while Keith Haring was more of a scam artist than a visual artist, it was really nothing new.
