I have been looking through all the pictures from our recent trip. I have a few with some modern art. The Indianapolis Art Museum did not permit photography of modern art. It was all right to shoot anything outside the modern gallery, but I had to put the camera away on the fourth floor.
I suppose there are copyright issues. Most of the works in the modern gallery were definitely created in the last few years. My favorite was a room with three parallel orange strings of yarn fastened to the floor in the center of the room and stretched to a window where they were taped. It looked like a beam of light coming in through the window.
In the corner were about a dozen black strings about eight inches apart stretched in parallel lines from the floor to the ceiling. Every four strings were aligned in perfectly straight lines if viewed from the right angle. As the view shifted to the right or the left, the row of strings took on the appearance of a solid plane.
These works weren’t complicated, but they weren’t random either. I don’t appreciate modern “paint-flingers” as much as other types of artists. I always wonder… did that turn out exactly like the artist planned? Was that “splash” intended to be just that size and in that spot or did it just happen.
Take a look at the pictures below. One of them was done by a world famous artist who is paid thousands of dollars for almost anything he does. The rest of the pieces were done by first graders taking their first art class.
Can you tell which is which? (Click for a closer look.)
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