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The Natural Philosopher

wrote:
Thus spake The Natural Philosopher ) unto the assembled multitudes:

I still don't understand it ... :-(

No one ever did. It was Art apparently. No one understands Art: The
secret is to pretend you do, convincingly..

Reminds me of when I stayed in a B&B in a village in the Spanish Pyrenees,
on a bird-watching holiday back in the early 1990s. The place was run by
a couple of British artists and the B&B was mostly patronised by those of a
similar persuasion. In my room there was a "painting" which consisted of
something like solid light blue on the top two-thirds, a thick red line
across, and a dark-blue bottom third. I've probably got the colours wrong
but you get the idea. One day out of genuine curiosity I asked the
proprietor what the painting was about. "Oh," he said in a rather
snobbish, dismissive tone, "you'd have to go to art school to understand
that." Ever since, I have regarded "art" like this as pretentious $h1t.

Well a painting like that is usually entitled something like 'is this
art' or somesuch.

I like Tracy Emmin. I can understand her bedroom. Mine was like that once.