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Despite my love for avant-garde/abstract/pretentious styles in music (Bowie, Beefheart/Zappa, Mr. Bungle, etc.), I find the vast majority of abstractionism in visual arts boring, and frequently off-putting in its pretentiousness.

For example, I was looking at a Mondrian on a visit to the museum, and the description told how the piece had sat in his studio for something like three years, as he labored over something about it - then he had a "eureka" moment and changed the color of one small square and declared it complete. My eyes rolled so hard I nearly fell into the lily pond on the opposite wall.