Jules Olitski "Beauty, Beauty"

After watching this video the first thing that comes to mind is the quote, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. That being said I truly believe “beauty” is still an important part of modern art. I am intrigued by an artist by the name of Jules Olitski. Even though Olitski states that beauty in art is now politically incorrect he still believes it has value and hopes art is beautiful. He began his career as an abstract and color fielding painter. He painted with a spray can and flatness technique; the video then portrays a man who had a distinctive change in the way he drew at the latter stages of his life. He began painting landscapes when he was in his late 70’s early 80’s. He stated he did this because “he wanted to paint landscapes.” He also quoted Oscar Wilde by stating that “nature imitates art”, his examples included that nobody used to admire a sunset, until they notice sunsets in Monet’s art.  He became one with nature and really brought out the beauty of it in his work. Even though his initial type of art (flatness) was pretty much exiled, he continued to do what he thought was beautiful. Whether that was continuing his colorful abstract pieces, his spray can paintings, or his landscape drawings, they were all beautiful in their own way. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.