Art and Over Analysis

This evening was a gallery opening in the Fine Arts Department, and being a hermit who appreciates the finer things in life, I made a point to attend. They always have great free food. The gallery is divided in two. The lower level was devoted to one artist who was obviously fixated on societies fixation on physical appearance and the things that feed that fixation. There was alot painting depicting ads from boy's magazines for things like "build muscle to impress girls" from the 50's. There were also a few McDonald's references and images of children flexing. Upstairs, many artists had prints and paintings of different subjects. All of it was abstract art, so its hard to say if it was any good. Many of the prints included images from engineering specs or designs for equipment like oscilators and things. I'm sure that the artist have no idea what these diagrams mean and just included them because they look complicated. The thing that lead me to over analysis was the their was no food being served in the downstairs portion. Consiquentially, everyone was gathered upstairs, concentrated around the bagels and lox, fruit platter and coffee. If this had been intentional, it would have been a great demonstration of glutteny and people's true modivation for attending these gallery openings and would have served to illustrate the theme of the downstairs portion of the gallery nicely. When I asked one of the girls working there if the artist was around, they informed me that he was not there because the reception was specifically for the upstairs artists. Therefore, all of my ideas about the gallery visitors embodying an artistic theme were invalid. It therefore falls under Gelnaw's law of maximum irony, since it was unintentional.