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Modern Art At Its Finest

That magnificent canvas on the museum wall Is it a bubble, a bauble, a bird -- or nothing at all? Its mystery the artist masterfully disguised So patrons will its enigma forever analyze

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L. J. Carber

Date: 1/21/2019 10:01:00 AM

Ah, Gershon you hint so well at the absurdity (in my eyes) of modern art-- I figure, if I can do it, it ain't art, and yet some of it goes for millions. I wish you had expanded on this prime example of human irrationality.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/21/2019 3:44:00 PM

Ha, ha, L.J! Can't remember the last time anyone asked ME to write or say MORE. It's usually, "Would you shut-up already?! … At any rate, perhaps 'more is less' and/or 'less is best.' ~ Gershon

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 1/20/2019 7:14:00 PM

I never see what I think they wanted me to, and I imagine millions of others do not either. It is like poetry; the poet and the artist are the ones who know. Sometimes I wonder if they throw it down as a test, to see if we have the meddle to call them on it.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/21/2019 3:42:00 PM

The Emperor has no clothes-syndrome, methinks. ~ gw

Line Gauthier

Date: 1/20/2019 6:31:00 PM

And worth millions... LOL Sometimes it seems that all you need is the audacity to call it art! LOL

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/21/2019 3:41:00 PM

Ha, ha. You know what the difference between art and trash is, Line? --- Neither do I! :) gw

Sunlite Wanter

Date: 1/20/2019 6:18:00 PM

LOL. There used to be a huge canvas in a museum here called "White On White." I think it was painted from different paint tubes.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/21/2019 3:40:00 PM

Ha, ha. Sounds like what was going on at the Guggenheim in New York in the late '60's. :) gw