Free Range by Bill Whitehead for August 25, 2022

Portrait of the artist as a “dung” man.

What’s the big deal. You’re not allowed to tell the instructor you think the painting stinks.

Really? What do you like about it?

Had to take a few humanities along with engineering. Art teacher taught us to dress nice and go to the art shows. Said there was free wine. There was….

The colors are so… colorful!

Most boring class that I HAD to take in college.

Adjusting her mural compass.

Amazing how much money is spent on ridiculous, pointless, waste of time, pieces of xxxxxx

Quick, say something like “It illustrates his view of our place in societies compartmented existence”. Yeah, that’s it.

Modern artists that were successful were very charismatic people that managed to land a wealthy sponsor who promoted them. Their art just isn’t that great.

Looks like an unfinished Pollack

There’s a lot of art I don’t “appreciate”, too…

Art appreciation is in the I of the beholder, and most art sucks.

Plus, it is the Professor’s one and only painting in an American museum, the rest are in Bulgaria.

And the instructor says: “Really? I think it’s piece of, well you know.”

Some years ago, a daughter of Joan Miró was in a museum and informed the management (somehow) that a painting by her father—a large and busy one, too—was hung upside down. The curators scoffed, but an inspection of writing on the back of the cavas revealed that she was quite right. Impressive. Given what a typical mature Miró looks like.

What the artist was thinking: I hope I make enough off this painting to pay the rent.