You Are Your Aesthetic
Soobee recently linked to this online quiz which tells you “what your taste in art says about you.”
I wasn’t suprised at all by my results: I’ve known for a long time that I favor Abstract, particularly Cubism, with a strong secondary preference for Impressionism paintings.
I’ll tell you later what this supposedly says about my personality, but I really want to talk about another aspect of this.
After taking the test I found myself thinking about why I love abstract and like impressionist art. I’ve taken a lot of flack over the years for my attachment to Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Chagall, Gris, Miro, Kandinsky, lèger…
My conservative friends believe that it is either an affectation or that I have been seduced and misguided by those leftist with whom I occasionally associate. But that is not the case.
I know what I like and, in a sudden moment of unexpected lucidity on the M66 bus the other day, I realized why Abstract, particularly Cubist art speaks so insistently to my soul, and why Impressionist art is so appealing to me.
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