Visiting Centre Pompidou [0] in Paris was the first time i GOT modern art. A big part of that was that it was organized not strictly chronologically but evolut

Visiting Centre Pompidou [0] in Paris was the first time i GOT modern art. A big part of that was that it was organized not strictly chronologically but evolutionarily - and I could watch how art evolved from Impressionism (which i also only got a few years earlier by seeing in person) to "modern art" - which at this point is a term referring to styles 100 years old. A HUGE part of my newfound appreciation for the Genre was Kandinsky. The way he used patterns and shapes made a profound impact on me. I know a lot of left-brained pragmatic software types that scoff at this genre of art - dismissing it as something a toddler could do just as well. I wish my experience on everyone - that's where I started, and by the end of my day at Pompidou I stood for almost 15 minutes in front of a giant blue square [1] saying "Holy shit, I GET it." No hallucinogens participated in this journey. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue