Gay Stuntzner Poet Prose Poetry

Looking At Art

We used to go to museums – 
	frequently – 
There were favorite artists:
	Picasso
		Matisse
			Giacometti (especially Giacometti)
	Henry Moore (never passed up a Henry Moore)
		deKooning
			Calder
	Oldenburg
Oh, yes, and Francis Bacon		
		Lucien Freud 
			and Georgia O'Keefe

I could go on, 
	but you get the idea
Painters were favored –
	20th century greats
		and a few who straddle the 21st 

We don't always agree
	but we have roiling discussions	

I like Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell –
	not his favorites –
No dispute that Philip Guston
	should have chosen another profession
	(what's with that shoe sole and cigar,		
		and pink? dreadful) 	

Now we wander from gallery to gallery
	wondering what happened to all the talent
	and why we don't respond to
		multi-media (too frenetic) 
			square boxes (too simple)
	steel slabs on the floor (uninteresting)
		piles of junk (more like detritus)
And what's with those neon signs

Very puzzling – 
	this response to visual art – 
		and mystifying –
Like all viewers
	we know what we like
Like all viewers
	we also believe our preferences are superior

But, no matter,
	looking at art –
		perpetual pleasure

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Fotosafari Films December 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM You mentioned most of my favorite artist :) Well done!

Skat A November 14, 2015 at 9:02 AM Gay S :) Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~