Postmodernist artwork imitating the good old days of abstract expressionism. Designer friendly artwork offering no insight into anything at all, employing a similar vocabulary of smudges, stains, spray paint, flecks, spills, splotches, and almost-monochromatic fields.
That generic AbEx wannabe painting is a totalwork of crapstraction.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.