#if u ever go to DC pls go to the national gallery u will not regret it it’s free and their exhibitions are incredible

[madeoftwinklingstars]

thinking about the conservative backlash to modern art. i saw this amazing phillip guston exhibition in the national gallery this summer and i just KNOW there are conservatives out there who would see his late work (pictured below) and think he wasn’t talented.

meanwhile his early stuff disapprove this entirety. bombardment below is genuinely one of the most technically challenging works i’ve every seen. how he managed a fishbowl lens while keeping proportions relatively accurate is truly incredible.

the thing about conservatives is that they think. art should be something that makes sense to them. that art should be something that should be understood. but set is supposed to make you feel. think. offer deeper explorations into the self. to offer deeper explorations into others.