If I turn my head sideways it looks like a yellow door swung open for me to look out into the orange world.An orange world, orange the color hazards, a cool color which now means“caution,” “don’t cross,” a world that from childhood is restricted because wehave been and are making it to dangerous to really live in.Always, careful, never crossing the orange to our eminentdisaster, Even people wear orange, to say, “Watch out, here Iam, See ME!” But we are far to busy being mesmerized by the depth of meaning in a painting and all it tells us about life to notice that person.If it’s not clear already, I’m angry. It used to be a joke: “you could sit and watchthe paint dry,” as if it was the most boring thing in the world, but people, I realize,actually do it. But my anger isn’t at the painting itself, or even the artist whose insides arescreaming to express herself. I’m learning to appreciate all that; I certainly wish I couldmake a perfect embodiment of my humanity. I guess I’m not even angry with those whosit in front of the painting truly trying to understand themselves and their world and thatother human, the artist. But I’m angry because it all happens amidst a dead and dyingworld.I guess just the system itself upsets me. Let those who don’t know Christ, do whatever they want, but Oh I pray there is balance in the Christians life, between theinspiration and meaning one might get from hours in front of a painting and the serviceand sharing of resource they have to a world that doesn’t even know a painting.I just saw the most beautiful art piece in the whole museum, it’s the girl sittingnext to me. So the painting evokes confusion, why we spend time and money on trying tounderstand this bridging of the gap and leave neglected that humanity of ours and othersthat we are trying so hard to understand. Non-objective Art- geometric shapes: top orange square about 2x size of bottomyellow rectangle. maybe it is a reducing of some objects down to its most purest form,like a computer, even if there weren’t computers then. But then there is the soft edges etc.like Monet’s time of impressionism. The orange is definitely forceful but the whole painting is at rest, not really attacking you off the painting, like Mondrian did. Oops,maybe it was surrealism and I wasn’t supposed to ask, “What does it mean?” If you look close you can see the running of the paint the yellow plop on the bottom being about fiveshades, and then- the orange stray dots of yellow and even some white, which follows thefootsteps (Liberation) of Pollock’s allowing the paint to leave the brush, even pouringover the canvas. “I wonder if he used a brush?”How has the artist altered the historical precedents in this contemporary version?Rothko, along with many of his contemporaries, but like none of his historicalrole models was entering an arena of art never entered before. The branches of this widefield of experience we call art, the Abstract and Non-objective were places we had never truly seen before. But, Rothko and his peers were pushing the envelope, like none before
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