Once upon a time, there lived an adventurous young man. Being an explorer and ethnographer at heart, he longed to travel and make great discoveries. Then it happened one day that he heard a tale about some curious developments among the natives of the Old World. A new style in the making and decorating of art objects, it was said, had been spreading among the craftsmen of various tribes. The movement was already dying out, however, and soon it would slip into oblivion. Intrigued, the explorer immediately organized a series of expeditions across the ocean. He visited all the important places, collected paintings and other exotic objects from the natives and recorded the stories they told. Impressed with what he saw and heard, he brought back many artifacts and decided to establish an ethnographic museum, naming it the Museum of Modern Art.
AI Remembering Salon de Fleurus
Bing:“The Salon de Fleurus was a fascinating and mysterious place, where art and culture converged in a simulacra of the past. It was a place where visitors could experience the beauty and mystery of the Parisian salon in a New York apartment.“
One day, a long time ago, when young Alfred Barr, Jr. was in Paris, he visited Gertrude Stain in her Salon. During the conversation he told Gertrude about the plans for establishing the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Puzzled she looked at him with a smile: “That’s nice, but I don’t understand how it can be both, museum and modern?”
A Personal Story – Part 1 The Beginnings For a few years now this image has been my computer screen (Fig. 1) and the scull within it became my Google avatar (Fig. 2). As they say, even in my wildest dreams I never expected this would happen, and that is why I thought it mightContinue reading “Harbingers of the Apocalypse I”
A notebook from 1981 with hundred drawings depicting various details from the panting Harbingers of the Apocalypse.
Tales of the Artisans is a collection of stories about art, art history, exhibitions, galleries, museums and people that invented them. The earliest seems to have appeared 1999 in the book: Collection of Drawings of an Art Amateur (dated MCM) and since then some of them have been published on various occasions. Continue reading “Tales of the Artisans”
What was Modern Art?