What is it? What does it mean? and the usual tropes "My
kid could paint that", "These people must be
idiots/insane/con-artists"...
Is the artist playing tricks with me? Well, sometimes yes.
But is that something bad? We enjoy movies, even though we know these are
produced with computer generated effects, and the people are just actors playing
roles. What about magicians (as as they are now called, illusionists)? We know
the woman in the box isn't really sawn in half (although it would be an
attention getting show if she were - even though the show would close that
night)?
For the person trying to understand (and perhaps even enjoy)
contemporary art, one book I have found interesting is: Ways of Looking: How toExperience Contemporary Art by Ossian Ward (2014).
The author has a system for approaching art with an open
mind - a "tabula rasa" (clean slate, for those who don't recall the
Latin phrase). Then using a step-by-step
set of simple tools to allow users to come to their own understandings and
conclusions about the art.
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