“Art has obligation to explain itself to you. If it doesn’t, it’s the art’s fault.”
This quote is trying to say that when a painting goes up on the wall and when people look at it, people should immediately know the feeling that the painting is trying to explain to you. And if you don’t see it right away then it is the arts fault that you don’t see it. I don’t agree with that at all, and for that matter I don’t think a lot of people would agree with that quote. The person who stated this quote obviously has not seen enough art in life. Most of the time artwork does not explain its self to the viewer looking at it. To look at a piece of artwork and not know what it means right away doesn’t mean that it is the arts fault or the viewer. Art has its own effect on different people. Everyone has a different view on artwork and that is fine.
In the documentary Marla paints abstract paintings and because of her young age it is recognized all over the world so quickly. Art today is weird and abstract in its own way and everyone who looks at it may or may not see something in that painting. In this movie the father is accused of helping Marla paint her pictures, because people think some of her ideas are grown up. All he does is set the canvas up for her and she does that rest. The mother says that modern at weird because it is difficult to understand. Both of the parents are viewed differently and each have there own view. To have the same views on art would be boring no one would go and see art because of that. There was a couple in the movie that bought one of Marla’s painting and saw that in one of the corners of the painting there was a doorway and a man standing there. Now I wouldn’t have seen that or thought of that if I had that painting. Just because when you look at artwork and it doesn’t come to you what the painting mean does not mean that it is the arts fault.