In defense of art that stinks

- Posted by Jon Lunger

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Its true, and as long as I’m dropping cliché phrases on you, I’ll add this one:

“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.”

I could spend hours finding 1,023 examples to prove these points, but I’m going to give you more credit than that.  I mean, everyone has had one of those moments…   when you overhear someone explaining why they think your favorite band of all time “sucks.”

Pieces of art are not for everyone.  Doesn’t matter if we’re talking about music, paintings or movies- whatever.  The reasons why someone likes a given piece of art are the exact same reasons someone else hates it (think of that scene in “Manhattan” when Woody Allen’s character meets Diane Keaton’s character for the first time in the museum).

That’s the true beauty of art- It makes us think.

Even when you hate something, at least it makes you think something along the lines of “what the hell was he/she/they thinking?”  You may not realize it, but that decorated dog-poop art ( by “Sprinkle Brigade”) makes you think more than you may want to admit.