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The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. When modern or contemporary art comes up in my everyday conversations

with art and newbies, there are a number of responses that I can reliably expect to receive.

The first is what I call the my five-year-old

can do that factor. So think of a Jackson Pollock painting, for example. It can look like a bunch

of haphazard splatters across a canvas, like anyone with little or no fine motor skills can just

pull it off. It looks so easy to create, even if in reality there's a real

skill and rhythm and form to these pieces. Closely connected to the my five-year-old can do that

factor, whether or not we realize it at the time is another really big question. How is something

like this supposed to be an important work of art? Now, I will be the

first to tell you that art, like beauty, can sometimes be in the eye of the beholder. What's a great

masterpiece to me may not look like one to you. Maybe to you it looks like total crap.

But one of the reasons that something becomes part of art history is often

when someone has the audacity to try something first. Timing is everything. And in art,

that's no exception. And one artist changed the name of the game when he was the first to put a

urinal on display in an art exhibition.

Some people think that visual art is dry, boring, lifeless.

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