Your Art or Mine?

We all know comments on art like: "This could have been produced by my little brother/nephew", or "This is truely rubbish", and "How can he/she call him(her)self an ARTIST". This has all to do with the obvious contradiction between modern art as opposed to more traditional art. The other day I visited the "Van Abbemuseum" in Eindhoven in the South part of the Netherlands. What I saw actually scared me. All the serious comments on art pieces shown in this museum do give me the idea that just a few people famous for their knowlegde of art, the real pro's, the art-critics, are pulling the legs of the spectators. Most of the audience looks at the "works of art", read what has been said by mentioned art-critics and begin conversations amongst each other repeating the words of these critics, thus celebrating this "art". Even a pile of shit (this really is no joke) is considered a fine work of art. Well I have got news: I produce an artwork a day in the smallest room of the house!!!

I do plea with everyone for a more realistic view on art.

PLEASE DO READ MY WORDS THE WAY THEY ARE MEANT: I am not opposed to modern art (in my next blog I will mention some modern works I really like). But let it be art, let it be a blessing to look at and do not let the so called artists and their so called critics get away with making shit or rubbish be placed in our (costly) museums. Don't let artists and critics alike fool you with the figments of their twisted imaginations. As I am well underway with writing my frustrations away, I would like to invite anyone to help me understand why the pile of shit or a stack of demolition wood is considered ART. While we are on the subject, please do also help me to see why a floor of peanutbutter, measuring 4 x 14 yards would have to be considered art. Another example of this fine art, take a pallet, put two gardenchair next to each other on this pallet and throw a bucket full of paint or tar over these chairs. Leave it as it is to dry and "A-La" a new piece of art has been conceived. Now we show the "art" to the "critics" and when all is said and done some poor sod will buy this briljant piece of........CRAP (maybe even with our tax-money).
I do believe this has all been instigated way back in the fifties and sixties of the past century. As an illustration we can look in the supermarkets of those days and take a look at can of soup. No one in his right mind would consider this art. One day however someone bored right our of his skull drew up a can of soup on a piece of paper and everyone (after having read what the proper "art" authorities thought about this) just loved this piece of art. After having lived with the lies about art for so long, no one dares to go back in their opinion about these so called artworks. As a vast amount of money has been invested in this so called art, is feels almost a necessity to maintain the status quo on art. AGAIN, please do understand that the soup artist has also produced really nice things, no question about that. But it is time we learn to shift true art and crap. It happened before that things that were once valued highly can now only be seen in junk yards, garage sales etc. Let's return shit to where it belongs and remove it from our museums. We can use the freed up space for things we really value. Can't be too hard.
No illustrations this time for fear I get in trouble for misusing copyrights (HA HA).