But just like the mad aunt you have locked up in the cellar (did I say that out loud?), the art ignorascenti can sometimes be heard above the general hubbub of common sense. Discuss in less than 3000 words.
Well, here's an example culled from Austria. OK, English may not be their first language, but you might say that that means they should be extra careful. It starts off well enough: 'Kunsthaus Graz is preparing an exhibition which investigates painterly and sculptural vocabularies ...', but soon lapses into psychobabble like 'The entire oeuvre of these two artists is a profound analysis of human psyche, executed with a particular sensibility towards the formal language. Materials, their texture and volume as well as colours, their significance and intensity seem to play a major role in constructing a physical and mental space and the entire architectonics of sensuality'.
So what exactly are the architectonics of sensuality? You just made that up, didn't you. I suppose that it's to be expected coming from the fatherland of psychological pseudo-science.
The problem seems to be that some promoters of art feel that the works just don't say enough for themselves. Embellishment is called for and the best way to make something seem profound is to claim that it's obscure. We all have problems understanding quantum field theory and it's about as profound as things get. As the great physicist P.A.M.Dirac might have said, 'the job of Physics is to take something that no one understands and make it clear, the job of Art is the exact opposite'.
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