(To be honest I sorta forgot what we were supposed to respond to, so I'm responding to whatever the interactive essay thing from the Museum of Modern art that was on the syllabus)
While abstractions are interesting, I prefer works of art that have a form to them. However, works with geometric patterns such as Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie bring a smile to my face. Perhaps it is Broadway Boogie Woogie in particular, as it is reminiscent of the colors of lego blocks I used to play with when I was a child. When things appeared simpler...
I am also fascinated by the semi-photo realism of romanticism paintings (grammar?), which is what lead me to Odd Nerdrum (who I found a few days before Professor Wellman showed some of his works to the class), who uses human forms reminiscent of romanticism but are in environments of surrealistic quality. A few of his paintings, such as arrest- have a sort of lava-like swirls of color in the background that reminds me of the works by Jackson Pollock like Full Fathom Five, except the swirls general flow and follow the human forms.
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