Went to see a little work of art you might of heard of called the Mona Lisa last week. I say "see" ... more like catch the top of it from about 25m away over a sea of camera phones. But that's fine with me, we saw it and I can tick it off. I'm vey much from the tick-it-off school of art.
My favourite painting is a little work of art you may heard of called The Starry Night. When I saw it, I hadn't really fully 100% consciously made the connection between the song Vincent and an actual painting called The Starry Night and I turned a corner in MOMA straight into it, and it really was one of my few "well, holy shit, there's that" moments with a painting. I like that it looks a bit like a child's painting. Well, anyway, I like a lot about it.
My sweet spot with art is probably around 1885-1950. I wonder, if you tried to equate ages of art with ages of music, how one would do it. Would the impressionists be 60s rock'n'roll? Da Vinci Mozart? Doesn't really work at all does it? Maybe someone could make it work ...
Anyway, though I like to tick off art, I do also like to look at it, and the people I've most enjoyed looking at, I think are
Van Gogh
Malevich
Durer
Mondrian
Seurat
Bosch
Miro
Waterhouse
Rothko
and of course Bob Dylan!
Just kidding there. I've had a few people tell me Bob Dylan's paintings art is not good, though some critics will say it is actually pretty good. I think it's pretty variable, I do think some of his paintings show some aptitude, but the interesting thing with Bob Dylan's art, as may come out a bit more after his death, is, well, look ... reading Heylin's exhaustive and exhausting biography and a few other things, Dylan has a relationship to not giving people what they think they're getting which is quite dazzling. I suspect were he not one of the great American artists he would be one of the great American white collar criminals ... as it is, maybe he's both, who knows...
anyway, art, you should try it, it can be good ...
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