Art for arts sake

Hey, Its Spring. I did a bit of a spring clean, threw out some stuff and stopped at a few paintings we had lingering about, Keep or throw? Couldn’t decide so I mused over the subject of art a while.

About 10000 years ago a Neanderthal or some such held a gulp of Dulux emulsion paint in his mouth, put his left hand on the cave wall and spat on it, he took his hand away and revealed his hand outline. This was a great trick and he showed it to his mates in the cave who were very impressed and they said “Uhhh?” ...... And so ‘art’ was born.

Quite a time after, some blokes who lived in Italy and whose names ended in a vowel took the challenge of this ‘art’ business. Caravaggio, Michael Angelo , Spaghetti and Linguine spring to mind. These guys were good at ‘art’ and the people said “Oooh”.

Britain had to have a go at ‘art’ ,it seemed quite the thing, so after a chap called Mr Holbein painted a picture of Ann of Cleves and had it presented to Henry VIII someone suggested that perhaps realism has run its course.

Back in Spain Mr Picasso liked cubes and so he pained a woman with 2 eyes on one side of her head, so the people said “Uhhh?” again.

This was fun to everyone, but the people weren’t thinking were they?, so a man called Banksy drew things on the brick walls of Britain, and the people stopped going “Oooh”and “Uhhh” and had to start thinking,…..and the local councils couldn’t decide whether to clean the walls of paint or flog them to Elon Musk to pay off the national debt.

Find art in the shop.