Where is Art

Where is Art?

As most people I have been brought up to believe art is to be found in a museum. As I have, until recently, never been particularly interested in art, I have left it that way. Musea, and especially moder art musea, were in my mind places to avoid. Most of the art these places are filled with are propably made by a weird kind of people whose functions/skills are on the same level as my little six year old nephew. "Who is afraid of Red Yellow and Blue"? Well I am actually. I do not mind the colors, nor am I afraid of them. I do mind the fact that this product of Barnett Newman (version III), hanging on the expensive walls of Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, is called a masterpiece when all I can see is blue, yellow and an awfull lot of red. Strictly this is not true says my doctor. He claims I am color blind. Extremely so in the red sction. Anyway for some reason I do love some kind of art and others I plainly detest. As most people on this earth I tend to like bright colors so obviously all expressions of art using vivid colors have my preference. Take below example:



I simply love the bright colors. I love the composition and I really love the fac t one can dream away with this picture. I can be all kinds of things in your imagination. I do challenge you to come up with the figments of your imagination. Having said this we can return to everyday life. When travelling from your home to work and back, going out to dinner, having a holiday, sunbathing, ice skating, swimming or skying, practically every moment of your life is filled with colors and images. Sometimes these images can make you happy and somtimes they don't. And although just a very limited number of images is hanging on a wall or is preserved by man in a museum, that does not mean these images and colors are not art. To answer my own question: "Where is art?" I dare say that everywhere, in every moment, in every season and in every mans life there is art. For art is, like God, everywhere and all the time. Art is omnipotent.