Flashback April: Eye of the Beholder
Apr. 8th, 2020 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Summary: One person’s art is another person’s rubbish.
Previously posted to a personal journal for the 30 days of fiction meme prompt #5 write a scene entirely in dialogue & to writing blogs in 2018
“It’s a very interesting piece.”
“Interesting? How?”
“Well…it’s symbolic. Probably.”
“Of?”
“I don’t know. Stuff. Things that other things are symbolic of.”
“Oh, that’s deep. Unlike the colours.”
“It’s a watercolour. That’s actually a more difficult medium than oils, you know.”
“Incredibly difficult by the look of this.”
“It’s…abstract.”
“Putting it mildly.”
“I mean that it has few connotations beyond what you, as the viewer, bring to it. It allows you to form your own opinion on the piece and any themes within it.”
“I see. I have an opinion.”
“Yes?”
“It looks like a four year old painted it and then the cat piddled on it.”
Previously posted to a personal journal for the 30 days of fiction meme prompt #5 write a scene entirely in dialogue & to writing blogs in 2018
“It’s a very interesting piece.”
“Interesting? How?”
“Well…it’s symbolic. Probably.”
“Of?”
“I don’t know. Stuff. Things that other things are symbolic of.”
“Oh, that’s deep. Unlike the colours.”
“It’s a watercolour. That’s actually a more difficult medium than oils, you know.”
“Incredibly difficult by the look of this.”
“It’s…abstract.”
“Putting it mildly.”
“I mean that it has few connotations beyond what you, as the viewer, bring to it. It allows you to form your own opinion on the piece and any themes within it.”
“I see. I have an opinion.”
“Yes?”
“It looks like a four year old painted it and then the cat piddled on it.”