Field Trip: Museum of Contemporary Art

Drei Geschwister / Three Sisters by Gerhard Ricther, 1965, 135 cm X 130 cm, Oil on canvas

My creative juices get stimulated by looking at great art. Today that happened as I spent a few hours in the Museum of Contemporary Art. One piece I kept going back to was the rather small grey painting pictured above by Gerhard Ricther.

Why did this image appeal to me? On the surface it was a blurry painting of an old black-and-white snapshot. I really don't understand the appeal, but I can't deny it. But who said art had to make sense? I just has to "work" at some level and "Three Sisters" does for me.

And I'm sure it is not because I have three sisters (but I do)...