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^^^^ I don't think that's anything to be ashamed of. At the end of the day I'd much prefer seeing something historically significant (there is a reason most of these have been canonized - even if I dislike the word), which provokes awe,ecstasy, etcetera than arrive home drain from wandering around numerous contemporary galleries wondering if I like art at all (times yet to effect its sh*t shifting mechanizes). You should have seen me tittering like a school girl when I finally got to see some of the Dadaist and Bauhaus guys works in the flesh, at our Pathways to Abstraction exhibition which was f**king brilliant. Lets not even mention Caravaggio :P I think Australia (with it odd mash of cultures) in recent times is becoming to realize the importance of such exhibitions with a whole crop of well curated event popping up over the last couple of years.  Anyway I'm just going on...

Henry Plainview wrote: So I know a lot of people are getting mad about ponies, but does this count as high art now?

You mean you're not linking this from MOMA's website?

Henry Plainview wrote: So I know a lot of people are getting mad about ponies, but does this count as high art now?

harmonium.ro wrote: Wow, you're so global! I must confess I didn't go to see the Messerschmidt exhibition, I didn't seem that interesting to me. Must be because indeed I know nothing of the guy, for a long while I thought it's probably an exhibition about German aviation. :) I'm looking forward to this spring, and I'll post these days a list of the exhibitions around. There's a huge Manet that just opened at the Grand Palais, one about Rome and idealized landscape in classical art also at the Grand Palais, a Cranach & his times exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum, Tony Cragg at the Louvre, some fairly interesting but not outstanding contemporary art and photography exhibitions and, most importantly, we're waiting for the opening of Anish Kapoor's instalation at the Grand Palais (this a thing similar to the annual installation at Tate's Tubine Hall).

Ha ha. Travel's one thing I cannot get away from.

I look forward to some reports!

Ah, the bold is exactly how I've felt about the slew of Independent galleries I've seen so far in Hong Kong (mainly featuring Chinese artist), tho' maybe change interesting to tepid and outstanding to lukewarm boarding on fuzzy. On many levels, what I seen, read and experience with Chinese art in the last ten of so years (since there has been a defined shift away from Mao influence commentaries, oh they've not gone away, but there been a shift, be it not paradigm) I've found more interesting on a conceptual level, which I feel is a crutch propping up the at time lacking visual aspect, which can often be the case with formative stages. But I indeed to keep digging deeper. 

Photography I've always been highly suspicious of ever since the photographer I was dating (there is nothing more sexy than a pretty girl pointing a camera) left me  Good photography is good but there are wealth of people lacking sincerity looking for cheap thrills, which is okay to, I guess, just doesn't turn me on. It is odd as I generally find such beauty in the ephemeral.   

Saw some works by Dorina Mocan, she's Romanian if I remember correctly.   

 

harmonium.ro wrote: the Louvre

harmonium.ro wrote: That's cool too. There's a Messerschmidt exhibition at the Louvre, which is why I asked. Someone who just died today used to say that Lisbon is the best place in Europe.

I see, I see, I'll have to ask my sister, she was at the Louvre last week (how I cursed her!). I'd go too but am unfortunately tide to commitments (and I fly back to China tomorrow). From what I can understand Messerschmidt was quite a deviant from the norm of sculpture? (At lest for his time) I've not seen much like it from that period. The expressions are so full of life. There is good book on him too, which I plan on acquiring at some stage soon. Supposedly not much writing released on him in English, which is a shame. 

Any new finds in the art scene for you?

harmonium.ro wrote: You're in Paris?

Alas, no, wouldn't be posting here if it were so I'm just finding more and more to like 'bout sculpture, the neophyte I am.

I'm 'bout an hours drive outside Lisbon, fwiw...

Sometimes life is too kind to me:

Franz xaver messerschmidt (February 6, 1736 – August 19, 1783)











etcetera

harmonium.ro wrote: W00t! Google is celebrating today the best and most famous Romanian artist!

Oh, now I know his name. I was terrified by his works when I was a kid. I saw 'Mademoiselle' in some book, and I had consequent nightmares that drove me the the edge of insanity. Even today I feel uneasy watching it.

I hate art.