Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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I love art galleries and know what I like. Some of it leaves me scratching my head. The turner prize during the City of Culture was absolute dog however.
Same, I'll pop in an art gallery on a city break, prefer modern to old masters, like a lot of Hockney and Picasso.
Agree the Turner Prize in Ferens was ****e but then I actually like some of Tracey Emin's stuff. Remember they put up Francis Bacons Screaming Popes in Ferens during CoC and I found them disturbing but I went to see Munch's The Scream in Oslo and thought it was incredible, a true work of art!
 
There’s nothing wrong with that. Everyone’s free to like what they like.

And without meaning to be rude as you’ve hinted at it anyway I think, I imagine most of us could be ‘trained’ to appreciate art that we don’t by better understanding why / how it came about and what it means (which is not to say that some of it really just isn’t very good), which the exhibition does a great job of in principle.

Monet was a genius and I’ve been to Giverny and loved it. But It’s more the idea that anything painted by him or any other great artist must be a masterpiece that winds me up - I can broadly accept that Lionel Messi was the best footballer of the last few years, but if he skies a penalty way over the bar then I’d be allowed to think it was a **** penalty and move on, but in the art world there’s this mystique that if I think it’s poor then I must have just not understood what the maestro meant by kicking the ball over the bar.
When Messi kicks a penalty over the bar, the seagulls circle the trawler.