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  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    like a cryptic crossword, the better you know an artist’s way of working, the quicker you will get the clues that he or she has provided.
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    What if you’ve popped into a gallery and happen upon the work, unaware of its relationship to Delacroix’s The Death of Sardanapalus? Well, it is still a powerful image and comment on modern life, with an intriguing composition and use of color. But the truth is that Postmodernist art rewards knowledge much like a cryptic crossword, where comprehension comes from solving the puzzle.
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) was an early exponent of the Postmodern art of parody and impersonation with her Untitled Film Stills series (1977–80) (see Fig. 31).
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    That concept of blurring the boundaries between art and commerce was ingeniously realized by the Swedish-born American artist Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929). Having grown up and studied in Chicago (with a stint at Yale),
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    Of the three biggies on the world stage—MoMA, Pompidou and Tate—only one (Pompidou, 1989–91) has ever had a female Director in overall charge.
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    Wagenfeld Lampe (1924
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    t was 1919 and the Bauhaus was born. Gropius announced that it would be a “major institution of art education using modern ideas,” which combined the “theoretical curriculum of an art academy” with “the practical curriculum of an arts and crafts school,” providing a “comprehensive system for gifted students.
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    Paul Klee (1879–1940). Like Kandinsky, he had studied in Munich and experimented with German Expressionism and Symbolism. He also shared a similar outlook on life to the Russian, believing that art could help connect Man to his environment and his spiritual self. And he too had a profound love of music (Klee’s parents were musical, his wife a pianist) and an interest in primitive and folk art. Kandinsky invited the younger artist to join the Blue Rider group. It was the making of the man
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    said that his ambition was to make art that was “something a bit like a good armchair, which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”
  • lyazatiqhas quoted4 years ago
    Restaurant de la Machine à Bougival (c.1905
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