I do not belong to the uncultured, pani pooris consuming public or an ardent fan of Danush’s vocal rending of the internet viral “Kollaveri” song. I am not also a very good person at grasping modern art. I cannot stand in front of a certified modern art painting which to me like “Is this painting upside down or did the painter’s child smudge it after finishing it.”
Especially I cannot understand these modern sculptures and architecture at all. To me the modern sculpture looks to a lay man like a crashed alien space ship or a glorified garbage dump yard. [I am not against it, please don’t start sending me hate mails, messages, it is just that I cannot comprehend it] To me a good sculpture is something that vaguely looks like something. For example you look at any Roman sculpture and it will convey the artist’s message very clearly: “Here is a naked human thinking where to buy his clothes? United Colours of Benetton or Levis”
You may be asking why I brought this topic at this moment. [Digressing from the topic Alert] Last week I was roaming around the city, since my wife was trying to look for a dress, and found some free food served at this art gallery. So I stepped in and I looked exactly like the Fish out of the Waters. I did not know what to do and how to comment to all those art which was hung. Not only was it awkward for me, its prices were also not in a rationale way. The only rationale that I could find was the uglier and confusing the picture looked, the higher the price quoted.
This is not the exact reason why I chose this topic [End of Digression], only this week did I find that a private office next to mine was trying to purchase a new art object to improve the decor of the front office space. This was not an ART piece; it was a Public art piece which means “purchasing art products by expert teams who are not using their own money for it”. This money comes from various teams who sweat their efforts the whole year to produce profits and they are not allowed to use it. This is because: 1) the teams would actually buy some real art piece which is aesthetic and cheap, 2) if they did there is no way these office experts can buy those crashed alien ship kind of junk for such high cost.
One thing that bewilders me is that, why should such a creation that is not so easily understood by a poker playing dog or a Danush fan or an eccentric person be so costly. In fact it looks like an actual crashed alien ship would cost 500 times cheaper than these modern art sculptures. Is it not a criminal offense to waste money on such items?
So I plan to send a recommendation to our local government that each of these so called modern art displays MUST carry a message: “NOTICE: THIS IS A PEICE OF ART! IT COSTS MORE THAN THE KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT! SO PLEASE ADMIRE IT FOR SOMETIME”
And in case there are any broken laptop or air conditioner compressors placed next to these art display, the office workers MUST place another message” THIS IS NOT A PEICE OF ART! IT IS THEREà”, so that public like me can save time and energy, the so called experts can also find time to look out for more such art displays.
This situation will continue till the project teams procure heavy artillery or missiles.
Especially I cannot understand these modern sculptures and architecture at all. To me the modern sculpture looks to a lay man like a crashed alien space ship or a glorified garbage dump yard. [I am not against it, please don’t start sending me hate mails, messages, it is just that I cannot comprehend it] To me a good sculpture is something that vaguely looks like something. For example you look at any Roman sculpture and it will convey the artist’s message very clearly: “Here is a naked human thinking where to buy his clothes? United Colours of Benetton or Levis”
You may be asking why I brought this topic at this moment. [Digressing from the topic Alert] Last week I was roaming around the city, since my wife was trying to look for a dress, and found some free food served at this art gallery. So I stepped in and I looked exactly like the Fish out of the Waters. I did not know what to do and how to comment to all those art which was hung. Not only was it awkward for me, its prices were also not in a rationale way. The only rationale that I could find was the uglier and confusing the picture looked, the higher the price quoted.
This is not the exact reason why I chose this topic [End of Digression], only this week did I find that a private office next to mine was trying to purchase a new art object to improve the decor of the front office space. This was not an ART piece; it was a Public art piece which means “purchasing art products by expert teams who are not using their own money for it”. This money comes from various teams who sweat their efforts the whole year to produce profits and they are not allowed to use it. This is because: 1) the teams would actually buy some real art piece which is aesthetic and cheap, 2) if they did there is no way these office experts can buy those crashed alien ship kind of junk for such high cost.
One thing that bewilders me is that, why should such a creation that is not so easily understood by a poker playing dog or a Danush fan or an eccentric person be so costly. In fact it looks like an actual crashed alien ship would cost 500 times cheaper than these modern art sculptures. Is it not a criminal offense to waste money on such items?
So I plan to send a recommendation to our local government that each of these so called modern art displays MUST carry a message: “NOTICE: THIS IS A PEICE OF ART! IT COSTS MORE THAN THE KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT! SO PLEASE ADMIRE IT FOR SOMETIME”
And in case there are any broken laptop or air conditioner compressors placed next to these art display, the office workers MUST place another message” THIS IS NOT A PEICE OF ART! IT IS THEREà”, so that public like me can save time and energy, the so called experts can also find time to look out for more such art displays.
This situation will continue till the project teams procure heavy artillery or missiles.
