Don't think so.
If I remember correctly, the last time we took our boys to DC, we stopped at the Hirshhorn museum of modern art. I was walking towards a trash can outside the museum throwing away some trash from food we picked up earlier. My wife had to inform me that the "trash can" I was walking to was actually a piece of artwork. Oops...
Don't get me wrong, I can kind of understand Pollack's work , but I'd never even put a $10 print of his in my home. I'm too much like my dad LOL
I still remember this one in the "art" world...
My mom was an abstract artist. I had to beg her to paint me a 'normal' picture of flowers in a vase.
She did. It's beautiful. She also drew and painted very nice pictures of our wedding centerpiece flower arrangements. Also, one time I was sick and home from school, maybe 6 years old, and she took an old cardboard box, cut it open to a flat, life-size piece same size as me, and in about 5 minutes painted a picture of me. I still have all of those and cherish them.
The problem with growing up with an abstract artist parent is you have no idea what the artwork is supposed to represent. Many times, it's supposed to represent whatever you see in it. However, if you ask them what it means to them, sometimes it's some dark scary place in their head that maybe they shouldn't have told you about.
Once you hear that, you can't forget it.
Then you have to pass that piece of art in your house for a couple decades and each time you notice it, you think YIKES!
I hadn't seen any of her 'dark' works since 1995 when she passed away. One of my siblings had them all in storage. She passed away Jan 1 of this year. So we cleaned out her house and found hundreds of pieces of both of my parents' art. I looked at many of them with another sibling and we both said YIKES!
However, my kids loved them and wanted them, so we said heck yeah! Take whatever you want.
But we did not tell them what our mother said they meant to her.
