Comments on: Barnett Newman and the Slashed Paintings https://musedialogue.org A journal for contemplation and discussion of the arts Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:34:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rachel https://musedialogue.org/articles-by-genre/visual-arts/street-art/barnett-newman-and-the-slashed-paintings/#comment-1240 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:44:26 +0000 https://musedialogue.org/?page_id=408#comment-1240 Or, you know, maybe some people are just deranged. The normal reaction to not understanding something isn’t to slash it up because it’s just too confounding. The examples of art vandalism cited here simply show that some people have profoundly disordered mental processes, not that the vandalized artwork is especially mystic or complex (it well may be — I happen to get quite a lot out of looking at the Pieta, myself — but that really has nothing to do with being attacked by someone who is mentally ill).

Expanding visual arts education is great, but it’s a real stretch to imply that it will somehow cut down on arts vandalism.

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