Art Critic At Large

The university where I work recently remodeled the first floor of the Student Business Services building, creating a big fancy lobby/information area. This lobby is decorated with student art using a variety of media; painting, drawing, sculpture, the works. Most of it's pretty good, some is excellent, all of it's interesting. I had a little time to kill one day, so I was going around from piece to piece analyzing, moving close, stepping back, squinting, and thinking in terms of comments I might make if they were posted here at DA. I finally came to a piece that knocked my socks off. It was a simple strip of glossy black metal mounted on the wall, about ten inches high by three feet wide, with ridges along the top and bottom, a row of black hex nuts running the length of it, and a series of three-inch white circles that contrasted beautifully against the black, also running the length of the piece just below the nuts. This wonderful piece of artwork stood out like a man among boys, an ancient oak amidst saplings compared to the pieces I had just viewed. I mean, like, the thing really spoke to me! It was so elegant and powerful in its simplicity, obviously an example of some new kind of minimalist industrial style and I wanted to meet the artist to discuss it. In the middle of my reverie a sudden thought occurred to me, a light flashed brightly somewhere in the dark recesses of my consciousness. The damn thing is a bracket that was used to mount a plasma television that was used during the ribbon cutting ceremony. I turned several shades of red and slunk out of the lobby hoping no one had noticed me staring at my newly found masterpiece. Man, do I ever need a vacation! Thank God the weekend is upon us!


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I have quite a bit of GIMP art in my gallery at the GIMP User Group. [link]