Friday 15 August 2008

NOT-ART: STUDY NO. 1

If "Art' is anything that is surrounded by a frame, then I am pleased to say this is definitely 'Not Art'.


Being Friday, the sun is over the yardarm and we have a wee glass of wine with dinner. The sun shone through the window just long enough for me to take this photo of the stuff on the dining room table. I mean, isn't that what Vermeer and his contemporaries did?


So here we have a 'Study in Purple'.

When looking on the net for something nice and purple - Daphne flowers perhaps? - I came across this painting. It is 'The Reverse Side of a Painting' by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, a Flemish painter of the 17th century. I rather like this painting and it is in the public domain.


By the logic above, then, taking something and putting it on the reverse of a frame must guarantee that it is definitely ... Not-Art.

This, however, leaves a question unanswered: what is the 'art' on the other side? Or what should it be, if this is what is on the back?

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