Picasso at MOMA

[suburbanartists]

Got in to see the Picasso sculptures at moma the other day. Well worth the trip to see many of those you usually only get to see in the history books. The Guitar looks like something made by a 1st grader. (that doesn't mean i don't like it). It's great to see the varied media he used and that even if the pieces are not to your liking you can still see the eye of a master creator at work.

thumbs up from me.

[evaldart]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that one Sub...What about the Louise Bourgoise retro at Guggenheim...I hear thats coming up too?

[grommet]

Got in to see the Picasso sculptures at moma the other day. Well worth the trip to see many of those you usually only get to see in the history books. The Guitar looks like something made by a 1st grader. (that doesn't mean i don't like it). It's great to see the varied media he used and that even if the pieces are not to your liking you can still see the eye of a master creator at work.

thumbs up from me.
I got a brief visit in too, with a similar thought. But I found the contrast appealing. The same pure, earnest intensity you find in a first grader in contrast to the stuffy learned polish of some other pieces. Then I stood with the polished pieces for a while to absorb them.
After all that, I ended up standing for a while in front of a Kurt Schwitter piece. Salvador Dali films the bizarre icing on the top.

[evaldart]

I always get stopped by the Pollocks; but there are some little ones there, stinkers I dare say, which I believe are antithetical to the purpose of his abstraction...token works that are not validated by their properly-scaled neighbors...paintings he made in devalued quiet moments by the automaton. We're all guilty of this, though.

[suburbanartists]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that one Sub...What about the Louise Bourgoise retro at Guggenheim...I hear thats coming up too?

Damn! Looks like it just ended yesterday... She reminds me very much of my Grandmother.... They have a very short video of her speaking.

http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/bourgeois/overview.html

[Dustin Faddis]

antithetical to the purpose of his abstraction...token works that are not validated by their properly-scaled neighbors...paintings he made in devalued quiet moments by the automaton. We're all guilty of this, though.

what do you say is the purpose of his abstraction?

and by being guilty of something, do you mean that these works were not representative of the particular quailty/"scale" that his works have come to be appreciated for? Thus, we are all guilty of making something that is below par in relation to the previous works that we are appreciated for?

[Imms]

The MOMA, The Guggenheim..
Darn you New Yorkers, you stroll around Manhattan, taking in the shows, staring at the Schwitters. I´m so envious.
I did see a big retrospective of Louise Bourgeois at Louisiana Museum, north of Copenhagen. She´s made so much, and lots of it is really good too.

[grommet]

Don't be too jealous, I was an interloper, only there for a few hours. They pegged me for an out-of-towner and sent me on a rickety bus back to Podunk. Or something like that... You made your delivery, now get outa here.;)