Name: Tidying up art
Uploaded: 2008-11-13T01:00:00Z
Duration: 15 min 37 s
Description: Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.

Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art

Tidying up art

Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.

Tidying up art reimagines famous paintings by deconstructing them into neatly arranged shapes, colors, and components. This playful approach transforms a chaotic Jackson Pollock into cans of sorted paint and reveals overlooked patterns in works by Miró, Klee, and Haring. Even a cluttered Bruegel scene gets emptied of its villagers, stacked side by side, demonstrating how order can reshape meaning. The result is both a critique and a celebration of art’s messiness and our human longing for structure.