tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post3357431016437858113..comments2023-12-06T11:18:27.198+01:00Comments on ThinkShop: Picasso Visits Zurich, AgainP. M. Doolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-13808891066555476422010-12-01T13:13:39.799+01:002010-12-01T13:13:39.799+01:00Thanks Margaret.Thanks Margaret.P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-16962269573319731192010-12-01T00:46:54.693+01:002010-12-01T00:46:54.693+01:00Although I blog mostly about Victorian art, Picass...Although I blog mostly about Victorian art, Picasso stole my heart when I saw an exhibit of his work when I was 15. Our school's art teacher (bless her heart!) had insisted that the entire school attend the exhibit. <br /><br />Prior to seeing Picasso up close, I hadn't really understood modern art, and was somewhat sceptical the movement. A few minutes at the exhibit changed my mind entirely. I'm not sure how the likes of "self-styled oracle" Carl Jung managed to escape appreciating Picasso, but he must have been working hard at it. <br /><br />This post will be included in the December issue of the Art History Carnival, which goes up tomorrow. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07197591307149394913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-11631810672911223172010-11-30T11:44:08.301+01:002010-11-30T11:44:08.301+01:00Thanks Hels, Your comment is spot on.Thanks Hels, Your comment is spot on.P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-47276530054852678592010-11-29T15:04:14.013+01:002010-11-29T15:04:14.013+01:00Super review of the exhibition, thanks.
You have ...Super review of the exhibition, thanks.<br /><br />You have to love the language the critics used in 1932. "The left-wing press complained of wasting funds on decadent art in a time of public economic hardship." And "the local psychoanalyst and self-styled oracle Carl Gustav Jung, visiting the exhibition proclaimed the works to be an indication of schizophrenia and condemned all of modern art."<br /><br />I have read all the reviews of the first ever Post Impressionist Exhibition in London, put on by Roger Fry in 1910. And the reviews of the Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, 1939, put on in Australia. Again the critics used the language of drunkardness, psychosis, sexual perversion, decadence and epidemic. <br /><br />I wouldn't have minded had the critics not liked the art in the three exhibitions of modern art. They could have said "Picasso cannot draw" or "Dali's images are not adding any learning to the world". Instead they were snide and couched their critique in terms of decadence and disease.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com