Spring and World Art Day

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Plum blossom, the first out.




It's also World Art Day! Who knew?

I love art. I also love Art. One of my guilty pleasures is watching Sky Landscape Artist of the Year, shouting at Tai-Shan Schierenberg telling him how wrong he is about everything. I don't throw coke cans at the screen, because that would be a waste of good beverage, but if you ever hear news stories about some woman accosting him in the street with yells of 'painterly marks! Eau, how painterly!' It might be me.

LAOTY is strange because even the most extraordinary winners end up doing toned down versions of their style for the end commission. It's like they're cowed and feel the need to rein it in, 'it' being whatever made them stand out in the first place. Also, often it's the Wild Cards who come out with the interesting stuff, and we barely get to see them. I'm convinced Art is the real work of our species. Art's like Spring; however tired we get, it always returns and brings freshness with it.