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.“
Exhibition “Fiction Reconstructed” took place in the year 2000 at the SKUC Gallery in Ljubljana. It brought together “The Last Futurist Exhibition” from 1985 by Kazimir Malevich , the “International Exhibition of Modern Art” which was dated 1993 in New York while it took place 1986 in Belgrade, and the collection of the “Salon de Fleurus” fromContinue reading “Fiction Reconstructed”
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?”
Once, in the early age of modernity, there was a civilization that invented the art as a way of reflecting the world. Art was understood as an intellectual activity expressed through painting and sculpture by specially gifted individuals named artists. In order to show works of art, first the galleries and exhibitions had to be invented. Then, the art market and the museums emerged and a notion of art spread to all epochs and civilizations.
It is most likely that the next paradigm will be meta in relation to the present. It will have many characteristics of the pre-modern world, something like the modernity seen through the medieval glasses.
Walter Benjamin – Recent Writings 2014
It is likely that the next paradigm will be meta in relation to the present. It will have many characteristics of the pre-modern world, something like the modernity seen through medieval glasses. Walter Benjamin – Recent Writings 2014
What was Modern Art?