YOU TUBE VIDEO dealing with a visit to a museum and an encounter with an artists work
Posted on 2/1/2012 2:22:14 PM
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Just got through reading an article in Time magazine on Charles Dickens. Perhaps because of my own work I was drawn to the criticism
harnessed against this writer by many of the critics reviewing his work. It was eyed with derision because it was to accessible to the general public. In short no pain no gain. Now if there is any writer that is in my estimation a better viewer of the human condition than Dickens you would have to prove it to me. As good perhaps and different, but better, no.
I took a group of college art students to Paris many years ago and visiting the Pompidou Museum I assigned the following problem. The Museum is on fire you have time to only get one painting out what will it be? Now this was a pretty hip bunch of students most well versed in art forum and various other organs of "Art Speak". What the major student selection was, surprised me. It was Bonnard that major conveyor of colorful confection. Why were they responding, by taking this one work out? Perhaps it had something to do to with Bonnard's sharing of the wonder of the small things around us . Decorative art, I don,t think so.
