To go deeply into Modern Art, no one is better than Kirk Varnedoe. This is a great lecture. But "Modern Art" is a period of art that is past -- a few generations ago, at least. In the 1980s and into the early 2000s, when Mr Varnedoe was active, Modern Art felt close and vital. Now feels to me very far away, less relevant to the arts today. Gertrude Stein wrote in the final pages of "Picasso" that it was a period of 'spectacular destruction,' when traditions and established ideas had to be broken down. That destruction was brilliant, liberating -- and spectacular, but today there is the need of building things up, of positive new fresh creative work. The foundation of that new world has already begun.
An amazing lecture. Thank you!!
To go deeply into Modern Art, no one is better than Kirk Varnedoe. This is a great lecture.
But "Modern Art" is a period of art that is past -- a few generations ago, at least. In the 1980s and into the early 2000s, when Mr Varnedoe was active, Modern Art felt close and vital. Now feels to me very far away, less relevant to the arts today. Gertrude Stein wrote in the final pages of "Picasso" that it was a period of 'spectacular destruction,' when traditions and established ideas had to be broken down. That destruction was brilliant, liberating -- and spectacular, but today there is the need of building things up, of positive new fresh creative work.
The foundation of that new world has already begun.
Just in case anyone wants to know before watching, this is about painting...
Hi! What is the year of this lecture?
2001 www.ias.edu/press-releases/creativity-symposium-be-held-institute-advanced-study
Huh. And here I thought Institute for Advanced Study was only about physics.