But what if you don't like it?
Is it still Art?
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it was a dark and stormy night in Chicago...
my intuition finally kicks in and gives me the surprising key to the secret of Tàpies' mysterious pictorial language... it's something the art world has been searching for since Tàpies first arrived on the scene...
and you may not believe what I've found... but I'm willing to bet that Tàpies himself would have loved hearing this...
the art of the great Spanish artist, Antoni Tàpies, has puzzled the art world (and me) for decades...
This year (2019) I finally decided to peer into the heart of his mysteriously abstract works, and damn if my intuition had to work overtime to get me even the slightest insight into his metaphors...
Part 1 of this episode sure had me sweating it out...
Rosemarie Trockel's "Wasser" has nearly a thousand years of Cologne history woven into it...
and I've got the scoop on why this has turned out to be such a moving work of art...
(and why I'd like to have this piece hanging on my own wall — even though I'm not an earth-tones kinda guy...)
In this episode, we're gonna hear from quite a few Cologne celebrities... even if they're no longer, um, hanging around...
And a major, wild synchronicity pops up...
making for a pretty cool surprise...
it's time to find out who , um, knitted(?) this artwork, and what title she gave it...
we also find out why "Untitled" is the most popular artwork in the world...
In this episode we finally look at the info on the wall placard to learn the name of the artist: Rosemarie Trockel, and the name of the piece: Wasser (Water)
we also do a little art alchemy that has some far-reaching effects...
burnt orange is NOT my favorite color, but that doesn't mean it isn't good art...
a large knitted piece hanging in Cologne's Museum Ludwig offered me an intriguing opportunity to find out...