A Swedish comedian and cabaret artist is talking about his book in which he enjoys showing his design innovations for, as he calls it, "tidying up art." Organizing and rearranging chaotic art pieces into a simple, neat and simple form. He plays and jokes with a few of the more popular forms of visual abstract and expressionistic artists that "delight in disorder, as he says. Wehrli shows us his vision of an organized and less stressful world through order and simplification. Taking famous two dimensional pieces of art from Jackson Pollock, Keith Herring and Vincent Van Gough to name a few and organizing the shapes and colors in a more visually streamlined version. Trying to make the art and the act of viewing the art more efficient.
A lot of viewers comments on the Wehrli's talk found his pulmonic ingressive articulation(so i discovered) unnerving or distracting. His vocal issue didn't bother me in the slightest. In fact I found the entire talk very amusing and intriguing. A particular thought that struck a chord with me was the concept of composition. Watching him move shapes of color into piles either satisfied some sort of obsessive disorder or was just for a non-typical amusement. But it really got me to think about what is important in visual art. Color and shapes or the juxtaposition they make with each other? I end up feeling the entire concept and spatial relationships affect the overall outcome and finished quality.
Additional Links:
Ursus Wehrli's profile on ted.com
