Today Is...National Day of Arts In Care Homes

Anyone who has had children will have once had a picture on their fridge which if you squint with the light out and stand far enough back you can sort of make out as a crayon drawing of a house but children are learning the mechanics of creating art but sometimes at the other end of the life cycle what's been learnt has been forgotten and you find yourself saying things like 'Wow, Grandma, that's a great picture of a...a...' before changing the subject onto if they have taken their medication today.
Throughout history great works of art have been misunderstood so don't despair if your Grandpa's Sunset Over The Thames looks like a cat coughing up a furball, even The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was called disappointing when it was first unveiled.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso was called vulgar and when Claude Monet presented Impression, Sunrise, he was asked when he was going to finish it while nobody liked Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night at first, the gallery removing it from sale as nobody wanted to buy it.
Salvador Dalí's melting watches picture, 'The Persistence of Memory' was dismissed as a jumble of meaningless trash and The Scream by Edvard Munch was called despairing and disturbing.
Bathers At Asnieres by Georges-Pierre Seurat was called coarse and vulgar, critics described Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner as a cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes and even the The Last Judgment by Michelangelo was so disliked by the Pope that he had his pension suspended.
The ultimate WTF IS THAT must go to the Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey by Vincent Van Gogh who kindly gifted this portrait to the doctor who looked after him in the mental hospital and the Doctor took one look at it and found the perfect place for it, to line the bottom of his chicken coop.
In conclusion, just because a painting was not well received at the time of it's creation does not mean it is not a masterpiece so keep that picture on the fridge because in a few years it could be considered a masterpiece, probably not but you never know.