Community Chat

[occasionalrain]

Do you like it, understand it?

I don't understand it. Sometimes I find it disturbing and wonder if others do as well.

[BoopOMatic]

 I don't care for it. I like artwork that I enjoy looking at, not something that seems bizarre or odd to me.

[DrakesMomma]

I do like it.  Do I understand?  Not always but that's ok.  I try to respect the artist's work and vision.    

[manny2]

I do like some of them. The pieces that are angry looking do not appeal to me.

It’s just using shapes and colors etc. to achieve the effect.

I think it’s a win for the artist when we see their vison. Which is not always the case. Art can be subjective to the viewer.

[LadybugDG]

I love a lot of abstract art, but not all. As far as understanding, I use my own interpretation 

[Marsha2003]

As I've grown older, I'm drawn more to certain abstract art.  There's something attractive about being pulled into the colors and shapes as walking through a room.  I still can't appreciate the spatter paint version of abstract art, whatever that is called, and I agree with other posters that I don't like angry looking or depressing art of any genre.

[Bookplate]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

Do you like it, understand it?

I don't understand it. Sometimes I find it disturbing and wonder if others do as well.

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"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

Cesar Cruz

[occasionalrain]

I like art with a bit of mystery, a big old house that looks abandoned, with a door half open and a second floor window with an image. Is it a person or just a shadow?

[occasionalrain]

@Bookplate 

That's perfect. I've never been comforted by abstract art, but I've been disturbed by it at times.

[Still Raining]

I have come to understand that some of us do facts and literal better than using imagination.  Sure that those are not exactly the words, but just my best.  

At work I was surrounded by folks who loved new regulations in the Federal Register and would have words about the use of a comma in the code.  We are those who just can't understand abstract.

The world needs both of us and we can be different.