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04/15/2007: "Paris Street, Rainy Day"

Song of the Day: Tiesto - Ten Seconds Before Sunrise

Every time I go to the Art Institute, I end up seeing things I've never seen before and forming new loves and hates. This is my current new favorite painting, while Joan Miró is my new "Whaaa? If you say so..." artist.

I have never been to the museum with the same person twice, so I get to launch into my tirade about contemporary art and no one says, "I know, I know, shut up." Like everyone else, Amy and Jeff did not wholeheartedly agree with me, so I'm thinking that I'm the only person in the world who isn't clever enough to appreciate a pile of candy or a bunch of colored squares being displayed in an art museum alongside Monet and Magritte and Toulouse-Lautrec. The most infuriating thing is how all the plaques on the walls use descriptive phrases such as "deceptively simple" to describe them. I don't think so.

Replies: 7 Comments

This comment is deceptively simple yet elegant in its complexity.

j, Sunday, April 15th

I have to agree with you on the Modern Art thing. Years ago I went to MoMA in NYC and saw White on White and thought "wtf?"

Babs, Sunday, April 15th

j's mastery of the form is shown with power and subtlety in her comment above. This comment perfectly characterises the output from her '[redacted place name]' phase and foreshadows the brilliance to come from her later works. Please continue on at this point to room 742, straight on.

Pootie, Monday, April 16th

(bloody pompous art critics.)

Pootie, Monday, April 16th

Okay. Had to chime in.

Let's all think about some more classic art pieces. Mona Lisa? It's a picture of a grumpy uggo. Brilliant! And how many f**kin' nudes do people need to paint to be considered a revered artist? By that measure, just about every horny 16 year-old boy is a classic artist.

Should I cut off my ear? Will that help? Maybe massive amounts of absythe.

Whatever, man. It's Dali, Rothko and Pollock for me. You can have your boring Waterlilies.

Jeff, Tuesday, April 17th

Dali should not be included in that category. :( :( :(

Did you hang your terrible new poster yet? :D

Brooke, Tuesday, April 17th

Art is God's way of blessing us all. Do not discriminate, but pray for the blessing to understand white on white.

j, Saturday, May 12th