If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Design has to work. Art does not.
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.