I took a guided tour so I could learn a bit about Aboriginal art. They’re very fond of pointillism and lines, and I must that that some of the paintings we saw were made up of exquisitely fine points and thousands of delicate parallel lines. Others were quite crude in comparison, like a child’s finger-painting. The crude artist, who only painted between ages 80-86 when she died, created thousands of paintings and when asked what they were about, said, “Everything. Can’t you see?” Well, no, I really couldn’t but maybe years from now I’ll appreciate her art.
There was a time when I thought any idiot could paint like Jackson Pollock. Well, this idiot tried. And failed spectacularly.
Today the highlight of my tour through the museum was Jackson Pollock’s famous Blue Poles. I love that painting.
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