Museum of Modern of Rip-off  

Today I went back to the MoMA (museum of modern art) to once again see the Van Gogh exhibit they have on display until my birthday. I think that the exhibit was great- Van Gogh was a great painter, and unfortunately the "design store" only sells "Starry Night" at a reasonable price.

Even though the exhibit is great, I really dislike what is displayed in the MoMA. Since we had a little time we breezed through some of the modern art exhibits. It has definitely come to my attention that painting a wooden frame black and attaching a red light to a mirror is in no way art. I am fascinated by how ridiculous some of the things are, and to top it off, how people are so fascinated by a blue line on a red canvas. At least that's on a canvas! There were some skeletons on the floor and that was considered art (I don't even want to know if they were real). It boggles my mind that people are interested in this sort of stuff. And before you begin to mention how I must of had to pay to enter the museum, I did not. Kudos for Columbia. Apparently the exorbitant amount of money actually helps pay for other things than just those silly classes, but I digress...

I could do some of the things that are displayed at the MoMA, and I think that's what bugs me. I like impressionists because they can paint people and places and you name it. They depict beautiful things if they so decide to make that person or place beautiful. And more importantly, they have a whole bushel of talent. But to drape a sheet in some random way and then get credit for it? Really.

So my next thought was, these "artists" had to know that what they created were complete crap. This is the time to cut myself off and say that some of the modern art does show a lot of talent, and creativity, but most of it doesn't. This leads me to believe that these "artists" then know how to bullshit, and big time. "Oh the black frame around the mirror represents the black hole of our lives, and the red light in the mirror represents how we feel when we are being sucked through that black hole." I'm sure that they could make up better B.S. on the spot.

Maybe I should try to pawn one of my kindergarten paintings of flowers off on the MoMA. "The color is not contained in the flowers because it represents how we cannot be contained in society the way that the government is trying to have us do. The table is at this odd angle, not because I did not understand the aspect of proportion and depth, but because it represents an oddly formed Earth with our chaotic societies raging war on one another." Think it'll work? Neither do I.