I think the vast majority of abstract art is bullshit.
I've gone for years believing this and when one of my longtime friends became an "abstract art painter" in last 6 months and got featured in some small time gallery, i lost whatever respect I had for him. It's really crappy and to borrow a long time cliche, a five year could have done it. Normally, I'd post this on FB under his next post but I'm too lazy to fight the inevitable 20+ accusations of being a "hater". Its art for the unskilled and the lazy, because you don't have to be good and you don't have to explain your "art". Its like if Leo Spacemen became an artist.
For someone who's entire meaning of life's work is to be daring, stimulating and ioccassionally controversial - "artists" sure do hate criticism.
I've gone for years believing this and when one of my longtime friends became an "abstract art painter" in last 6 months and got featured in some small time gallery, i lost whatever respect I had for him. It's really crappy and to borrow a long time cliche, a five year could have done it. Normally, I'd post this on FB under his next post but I'm too lazy to fight the inevitable 20+ accusations of being a "hater". Its art for the unskilled and the lazy, because you don't have to be good and you don't have to explain your "art". Its like if Leo Spacemen became an artist.
For someone who's entire meaning of life's work is to be daring, stimulating and ioccassionally controversial - "artists" sure do hate criticism.