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Because it's ugly, hideous even.
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All you have to do is use "I think" before "it's ugly," and then you not only have an opinion, you acknowlege the intrinsic subjectivity of both the reception and criticism of art. Nonetheless, I appreciate your apology and hope you don't always mistake my own opinions as pomposity.
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I read John Bolton as more of a Mondrian man, myself. All straight lines, only a couple of differnt colors, no curves, no greys, everything literally colored inside the lines.
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OK. Now I WILL be pompous. Mondrian extensively used gray, especially in his rectilinear color studies. But the Bolton analogy still holds. I would still, however, rather look at ANY Mondrian painting than look at Bolton. He strikes me as a real dickwad.
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The brush-work on that painting is so exciting... it is amazing.
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It's unfortunate that I have never seen the actual painting, only reproductions in books and on posters. Brushwork, as you note, is a key aspect of so many paintings; if you get up really close to, say, a Van Gogh, or even a Rothko, you realize that it's actually a three-dimentional expression.