We have enjoyed the last couple of weeks in Canberra visiting many of the Tourist sights and thoroughly enjoying them, that is until yesterday we saw and enjoyed the Portrait gallery then moved on to the National Art Gallery where we saw Blue Poles and I remembered that I thought we had been ripped off but now after this visit its great art.
There were a majority of paintings in the Gallery that reminded me of my 5 and 9 year old Grandsons, and then there were the Ned Kelly ones that looked like my 4 year old grand daughter most recent attempt but the one that topped it all off was one like I got a belting for from my mum when I was young it was about 10 foot square and all Black except for a small yellow odd shape in one corner.
Obviously his Mum was not as tough as mine and she put it in the National Art Gallery as a joke, and I think its very funny that they left it there for everybody too see you should have a look if you are ever in Canberra. honestly I am not lying
Gerty Dancer said
09:33 PM Oct 7, 2013
Yeah, art is "art" and I must be a bogan too, cos I just don't always "get" it. Some people claim to be experts, but honestly, would you hang some of that stuff in your lounge room???
Was the Turner exhibition still on? Loved some of those paintings.
aussietraveller said
10:02 PM Oct 7, 2013
Very much wanted to see the Turner exhibit but unfortunately missed it by a week much the pity as it would have made our day to see it.
D and D said
06:35 AM Oct 8, 2013
I can remember a number of years ago when there was a display in Adelaide of some sort of painted art works and I was "conned" into accompanying a friend to the exhibition. One of the paintings was similar to that described by AT except it was 4 differently coloured squares in the middle of the canvas which was white and I said much the same - "You reckon that's art, even I could do that" to which my friend covered half of one of the squares with the program and quickly flipped it to cover the previously displayed portion and expose the previously displayed portion and you know what - they were totally different. She did it it horizontally, vertically and for each of the 4 squares with the same result. That was more than 40 years ago and it has influenced my perception of art ever since.
We have enjoyed the last couple of weeks in Canberra visiting many of the Tourist sights and thoroughly enjoying them, that is until yesterday we saw and enjoyed the Portrait gallery then moved on to the National Art Gallery where we saw Blue Poles and I remembered that I thought we had been ripped off but now after this visit its great art.
There were a majority of paintings in the Gallery that reminded me of my 5 and 9 year old Grandsons, and then there were the Ned Kelly ones that looked like my 4 year old grand daughter most recent attempt but the one that topped it all off was one like I got a belting for from my mum when I was young it was about 10 foot square and all Black except for a small yellow odd shape in one corner.
Obviously his Mum was not as tough as mine and she put it in the National Art Gallery as a joke, and I think its very funny that they left it there for everybody too see you should have a look if you are ever in Canberra. honestly I am not lying
Was the Turner exhibition still on? Loved some of those paintings.