I'm not saying he wasn't a genius. Many people liked his stuff, but at the same time he polarized it too -- because, well, think about what was considered art before and then all of a sudden you essentially have a guy splattering paint on a canvas laid on the floor and he got the world to consider him a brilliant painter.
His stuff reminds me of the book "Waiting for Godot" I think it's called. Didn't he start numbering his paintings because people kept looking for something in them, a deeper meaning, a story and he just wanted them to enjoy it for what is was. Pure painting... like the book, people keep trying to read into it when it's so vague and many consider so random that you can pull any deep allegorical meaning out of it. This is why art is art. It just is.
And just because we might be in an age of minimalism -- and if art follows, (and I swear I will flip shit if we call a dot on a canvas a masterpiece of the times, a revolution in the field... I personally kind of want to do it, to see what people think... or what weirdos will read into it "it's magnificent, it represents humanity and how self-centered our universe is.. blah blah") it doesn't necessarily mean we have to enjoy it. I'm not a fan of "Victorian" furniture, and I'm definately not a fan of a lot of what Ikea has to sell because I find their stuff to be sooo, minimal and basic. I don't like my walls barren, nor my rooms unfurnished -- I'm a Dania kinda guy hands down.
His stuff reminds me of the book "Waiting for Godot" I think it's called. Didn't he start numbering his paintings because people kept looking for something in them, a deeper meaning, a story and he just wanted them to enjoy it for what is was. Pure painting... like the book, people keep trying to read into it when it's so vague and many consider so random that you can pull any deep allegorical meaning out of it. This is why art is art. It just is.
And just because we might be in an age of minimalism -- and if art follows, (and I swear I will flip shit if we call a dot on a canvas a masterpiece of the times, a revolution in the field... I personally kind of want to do it, to see what people think... or what weirdos will read into it "it's magnificent, it represents humanity and how self-centered our universe is.. blah blah") it doesn't necessarily mean we have to enjoy it. I'm not a fan of "Victorian" furniture, and I'm definately not a fan of a lot of what Ikea has to sell because I find their stuff to be sooo, minimal and basic. I don't like my walls barren, nor my rooms unfurnished -- I'm a Dania kinda guy hands down.
