RE: Your Thoughts On Art
April 14, 2019 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2019 at 9:21 am by Alan V.)
The best I can do to rationalize the popularity of the Large Bathers paintings is to say that people must not be judging them as stand-alone works, but in the context of art history. Cezanne undoubtedly had a major influence on the artists who followed him. Picasso would not have painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon otherwise, but at least Picasso had an emotional point to make in applying that kind of primitive drawing in his work.
I attended the Visions of Arcadia show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2012, which tried to make sense of their Large Bathers in the context of the tradition of European artists painting such idyllic works. So I guess that's another component which I fail to appreciate. I wondered whether the museum was trying to play up their major acquisition, as they have also done with shows about Duchamp.
I attended the Visions of Arcadia show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2012, which tried to make sense of their Large Bathers in the context of the tradition of European artists painting such idyllic works. So I guess that's another component which I fail to appreciate. I wondered whether the museum was trying to play up their major acquisition, as they have also done with shows about Duchamp.
