ART

Art....I don't get it. As I was waiting for my niece and her friend to show up at the Celebration Bridge Thanksgiving morning for us to do our version of the Turkey Trot. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a 5K run on Thanksgiving morning. She was late...shocking for her!
We were to meet at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Since I was early, I started looking around. That is when I saw this bright squiggly blue thing. It is cool looking but I think my grandson, Ryder, has duplicated it with bendy straws many times as we have been out to eat. It is blue and shiny but art? I am not so sure. There is no telling what it costs but I bet it wasn't cheap. And so I started thinking....hey, maybe I could be an artist? Okay, maybe not...but I just don't see this as art. Not really even as a sculpture. Just a cool blue bendy thing. As I waited (some more) for my niece to arrive I saw these interesting pieces of "art"
Now I KNOW that Grace Elizabeth (she's 7) has made these EXACT same trees out of play-doh before. You know, their (Ryder and Grace) daddy is an artist. Even teaches art. Maybe he isn't an artist after all. Maybe he, along with whoever did these pieces of art, were just mimicking what they have seen their children do?
Art? I don't get it.