This is Franz Kline's Provincetown II painted in 1959. This is the lead example of why I feel art is often taken as something that anyone can do. This kind of art is why so many people assume that being an artist is being lazy, or making money for something that anyone could splash on a page. While I understand that this form of expressionism is a free flowing kind of art meant to convey an idea or feeling more than an image and it is meant to do so by not giving you any image you can relate your own thoughts to, this has no substance. Color is the only viable element I can see in this image, and unfortunately color means little to any viewer without any sense of form, line, or other basic artistic principles to make something that someone can feel anything for. While stripping away perceptions make a difficult task for any artist, I think it is difficult only for the sake of difficulty. Another way to say that would be to say that would be that the act of stripping away and shape or form that the viewer could bring perceptions into the art work would be a great exorcise for artistic understanding, though not a piece of work for public consumption. To take away that which makes the image something we can relate to is to strip away all value of the work beside the basic exorcise of artistic understanding. I see no aesthetic value or reason for a piece like this. Also it looks like a child did it, which could be why so many think art can be done by anyone.