A typical exemple of bad art, according to me

Well, I'm not only going to dedicate this blog to my favourite artists - I'm going to release my frustrations about bad artists in it too.

Last autumn (I think) our class went to Nordanå to see an art exhibition by the so-called-artist Marianne Lindberg de Geer. That exhibition made me really irritated. Why? Because the majority of de Geer's art was based on that she'd bought/taken other painter's work and painted her own stuff on them - vandalized them, from my point of view, because it wasn't even well done. She had been reported by many artists because she had scribbled on their art and used the results in her own exhibition, and yet - even if other artists felt insulted - she kept going, only to provoke I guess.

The worst thing in the exhibition was one horribly ugly piece of so-called art, cathegorized as art-installation. It consisted of simply a dirty and stuffed lump of fabric that was put under an ordinary chair, and she was trying to sell this spectacle for 25.000 Swedish kronor. According to me, this summarizes de Geer's art pretty well - a piece of junk.

Franz Marc

Actually, I found an artist today (thanks to the art-history class) that I already consider as one of my favourites. It's an expressionistic, German painter named Franz Marc. He mainly paints animals in a kind of abstract and funny way, and I really like his painting-style and use of colours. If you want to see more, Google is your friend.

Let's go arty

I think I'll start this blog with an introduction of myself and the reason why I'm sitting here and writing this blog. We've got a kind of weird but pretty funny school task - starting a blog in English about art. I'm not English, I'm from Sweden - and I'll blame any possible weirdness in my texts and formulations on that fact. I study art at school, and that's the reason for the main subject of the blog. Now, let's get started.

I'm really not a deep art-analyst or something, so I guess I'll just write about art in general.