1.   Couch paintings make us literally turn our backs on art.

2.   Does anyone even look at couch paintings?

3.   It might seem surprising, if not impossible, that couch paintings have met their end in the age of the couch potato.

4.   Now, couches spread and meander through space, an apt metaphor for our newly open-ended lives, leaving no place for couch paintings.

5.   Yet, even in their most elegant forms, couch paintings smack of the absurd.