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Friday Fun Thread for October 28, 2022

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Modern art ist so great that even museums don't manage to hang it up correctly. And we cannot do anything about it, because it might damage the picture.

The way the picture is currently hung shows the multicoloured lines thickening at the bottom, suggesting an extremely simplified version of a skyline. However, when curator Susanne Meyer-Büser started researching the museum’s new show on the Dutch avant garde artist earlier this year, she realised the picture should be the other way around.

“The thickening of the grid should be at the top, like a dark sky,” said Meyer-Büser. “Once I pointed it out to the other curators, we realised it was very obvious. I am 100% certain the picture is the wrong way around.”

This just reads like a priest conferring with other priests, trying to regain the confidence of their flock, when a prophecy turned out wrong, and they decided a new interpretation is the "correct" one.

A photograph of Mondrian’s studio, taken a few days after the artist’s death and published in American lifestyle magazine Town and Country in June 1944, also shows the same picture sitting on an easel the other way up.

Seems plausible that it really is upside down.

I'm not commenting on the plausibility of the new explanation. I'm commenting on how they switched from "Obviously the thickening lines represent X" to "Obviously the thickening lines represent Y" without missing a beat. And I'm sure if a 3rd photograph emerged with the work on it's 3rd side, they'd come up with another explanation about how "Obviously the thickening lines represent Z". As opposed to maybe the "artist" just preferred running his tape in a consistent direction at a low angle where he doesn't have to reach while he was working on it.

Because it's all a barely recognizable mess that could mean anything. It doesn't "obviously" represent any specific thing. And it cracks me up that they act like it does. They might as well be commenting on the obviously correct interpretations of a schizophrenics scat smeared wall art.