Art Writing: Connections Brilliant and Absurd

Critic Jonathan Jones asks why doesn’t the public like painter Ellsworth Kelly.

“Then they walk quickly… through the Kelly room, ignoring the flat, coloured objects on the wall… Perhaps it is “chromophobia”, fear of colour, which surprisingly enough has something to do with Islamophobia.” (He goes on to explain that “Abstract art is an Islamic invention…”)

That’s the kind of mental leap I love.

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