VISUAL SEDUCTION: In the end, that’s all it is. 

A brief taxi conversation with a friend last week reminded me of the importance of distancing Art from its traditional bourgeoise aesthetic categories. No one should feel they have to ‘get it’. There is a time and place for academic discussion but it should never supersede its own source - the uninterrupted, one-on-one visual conversation between the viewer and the work. Would you buy an audio guide for your sex life? 

Here begins a series of works I have found myself sensually, if not sexually, attracted to. I resist sanctifying them solely in the academic realm and so I have and will continue to post them sans textual supplements (with the exception of the ‘essentials’).

Yves Klein, Monoblue (1960). International Klein Blue (IKB) on canvas.