some type of adult girl

downtown-jazz:

I’m sorry but art needs it’s context posted by it when in a museum. Not everyone understands why Malevich painted his black squares. Not all patrons will understand Rothko’s thoughts pressed between his layers of paint. And not every one will be able to look at Kandinsky’s symphony’s on canvas and know what’s going on. Every piece in every museum aught to have what it is, why it’s important, and why/where it was created, and what reaction it got. I’m tired of the elitism in artistic culture that makes people feel as though they could never understand it. It’s because they know the context and you don’t! And museums have failed at that for years. It’s their job to teach us, just as much as it’s our job to be willing to learn.

(via thelavenderer)