Gutai art, a Japanese artistic movement that existed around the same era as abstract expressionism, believed in the beauty of ruin and decay. The Gutai manifesto itself, written by Yoshihara- the movement’s founder- reads:
"Yet what is interesting in this respect is the novel beauty to be found in works of art and architecture of the past which have changed their appearance due to the damage of time or destruction by disasters in the course of the centuries. This is described as the beauty of decay, but is it not perhaps that beauty which material assumes when it is freed from artificial make-up and reveals its original characteristics? The fact that the ruins receive us warmly and kindly after all, and that they attract us with their cracks and flaking surfaces, could this not really be a sign of the material taking revenge, having recaptured its original life?...."
    If an entire art movement can be built around this idea of the “art of destruction, “ I believe that the image shown below is art as well.

    This is an image of the ruined interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974. It was once a gorgeous theatre, built in a Spanish-Gothic style. And here it is now, the gorgeous ruins of that same theatre, an inspiration for ghost stories and other supernatural superstitions. Gutai artists strove to emulate the idea behind architecture such as this, yet there is hardly a need when such wonders exist right before our eyes.