New York City (Painting)

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“New York City.”

The famous painting that has apparently been hanging upside down in the Kuntz Museum, in the Hague, for the past seventy seven years, & no one noticed. It was an example of ‘abstract art.’ Painted by Piet Mondrian, so maybe a difficult one for many to determine. “It should have been put up the correct way in the first place,” an expert said. Due to it’s age & size though, if it was rotated througth 180 degrees, after all these years, chances are it would just fall apart. From a distance, it does somehow remind me of a Betterware catalogue picture of one of my granny’s tea cloths. Kuntz just says it all!

It had apparently been inadvertantly inverted. “New York City I” (Painted in 1942)

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63423811
(Link kindly provided by Liberal Liquidator)

Nominated by: Lord Scunthorpe

83 thoughts on “New York City (Painting)”

  1. It’s definitely upside down, it’s so obvious and if you can’t see it you aren’t looking 😂

    You can imagine what was going through the other curators minds when the silly bitch came out with her revelation ‘fuck, if I don’t agree she will think I am thick and I will have no chance of getting into her knickers’

    • She’s got her knickers in a twist. Upside down.

      It’s not the artist to blame. It’s the art critic who needs to be hung and we all know which the right way up that is, don’t we children.

  2. It’s obvious this ‘upside down’ business is nothing more than a cheap gimmick to get some free publicity for a museum whose attendance levels must have hit rock bottom if that pitiful thing masquerading as ‘Art’ is any way representative of what they have on display.

    Give me an old fashioned painting of a Campbell’s soup can any day.

  3. I remember that woman who used to do painting on the telly. Nancy Kominski, I think she was called. And it was better than this crap. In the 70s, someone would actually paint a picture on TV in half an hour. Nowadays, millennial spazzes would take that amount of time just to get their iPhone or Photoshop started. How times change…

  4. Mondrian liked to save money by only using 3 tubes. I remember my art teacher loved his stuff, but she couldn’t draw or paint. I think that is the case in many Comp. Art departments.

    I was vindicated many years later when i read that Salvador Dali also thought he was shit.

  6. My rule for this nonsense such as dirty beds, flashing lightbulbs, paintings that are no better than a 4 year old’s, dead cows in a tank etc is that if I could do it, it’s not art.

  7. These motion paintings are a load of crap too. I’ve just laid a cable that will do justice to that effect. You must see the steam coming from it, its a thing of beauty.

  8. ‘Charles,’ said Cordelia, ‘Modern Art is all bosh, isn’t it?’

    “‘Great bosh.’

    Thinking of Waugh. Him and a few friends rented a gallery in London and publicised a new great Artist from Czechoslovakia named ‘Bruno Hat’. I think Waugh dressed up as him. A few daubs on a wooden canvass. All the art critics came.
    And this new avant guarde Artist praised to the nines.
    Then they revealed it was a hoax.
    But it wasnt universally accepted and people maintained there was artistic merit.
    I believe some of the ‘work’ was sold.

  9. Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee
    Laid down the axioms of abstract art
    Even Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrian
    Preferred to paint a slice of rhubarb tart.

  10. It’s a sensitive art nerd who can tell which way up a Mondrian is supposed to be. Art, chaps, is whatever you can sell to a Saatchi. Damn good racket, wish I had the knack myself.

  11. To be fair on Mondrian, it probably was quite refreshing to see new styles of art work coming through.
    It was a few decades ago before man buns and student bars.

    • You’re such a cynic…. tsk! Art isn’t about money…. just take Damien Hirst…. actually… scrub that

  14. Basic and lacking in imagination, this could have been done by anyone with access to a straight edge and half an hour to spare.! I’ve been to New York and it looks Fuck all like that.

  16. Last word on this one.
    What was interesting about this “art work” is that paper strips were individually painted, & then hung out to dry before assembly. If you zoom up on the link, this is clear to see, & it does look a right mess. Insulation tape, or as it has also been called ‘bodge tape,’ was certainly not around in the 40’s. P.V.C. & if you like P.T.F.E. tape came along much later. So a reproduction today, would not be difficult to make.

    • Bodge tape? The material you describe is an integral part of my hovels wiring.

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