Mid-Morning Art Thread

Woman, I
Willem de Kooning

Here's the description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

The result of a protracted period of labor that involved the creation and destruction of many other possible versions, Woman, I appears to be suspended in a state of arrested development. The effect was deliberate: throughout his career, de Kooning prized experimentation, editing, and testing. To this end, he employed a range of techniques, from cutting, masking, and collaging to scraping, wiping, and blotting. Although he also produced individual sketches, the real sketching happened on his canvases. Yet this alone does not account for the unfinished quality of his finished painting. De Kooning’s purposefully fluid, undisciplined brushwork and his tendency to disregard contour lines produce a visual chaos that suggests incompletion, whether spatial, physical, or technical. "I refrain from finishing," the artist said in 1958. He elaborated in 1960: "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."

And here is a short discussion about it...and yes, it is more nonsense.

So why did I post this? Because it is art. I think it is self-indulgent crap, but there is a certain seriousness about it, and obviously the current art world is enamored of this sort of stuff, which I consider "Anti-Art."

Or, shArt.

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