Sheldon

My favorite painting at the Sheldon would have to be the work by Hans Hofman titled The City. I interpret this abstract painting to be a city block and all the "happenings" of a large city portrayed on the fringes of this road. It is also a very vividly colorful painting. It really jumps out and grabs your attention at first glance. The feeling this work gives is that of a happy city experience, I feel this mostly from the color choice.

This work brings out possibilities in art that haven't been explored to date, and may never be.

Now that I have said something nice about a piece of art I believe that it is time to say some very rude things about what I like to call crap. For example Robert Henri's work entitled Happy New Year 1915. Maybe I don't understand this particular drawing, and I do hope so. If there is no hidden dimension, or optical illusion that I am not seeing in this picture, than it honestly looks like someone gave a two year old boy with chocolate around his mouth, and a dirty loaded diaper a black crayon, and told him to have fun on a piece of paper. This brings us back to the age old question; what is art? Some may consider this