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When my eldest was about, oh, ten or so, we visited the Smithsonian art galleries. It was when they had Picasso's exhibit. She had just read a book on him and after a few minutes of standing in one of the rooms, she said, "this must have been from his 'blue period'". Heads turned.
Later we were in the modern art gallery, where they had a 20'x20' canvas of splatter painting and a series of 30'x5' white panels with a single blue line drawn from top to bottom somewhere on each of them. This did not bother her. We entered the next room and there was a 3'x3' canvas on the wall that looked EXACTLY like your image. Some guy had been standing there for a long time studying it as we looked around and this got her attention. She went over and stood behind him trying to figure out the allure. After a few minutes, she said, "Papa, I don't get the point of this one."
The guy who had been studying it answered for me, "well, if you look over here, you can see that the brush strokes in this small square region go in a different direction than all of the others."
She took note of this, shrugged, and moved on. He obviously had not answered the question of "what was the point." I privately confided to her later that there was none. THAT was the point. The guy who studied it didn't get it.
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