Monday, November 06, 2006
More Modern Art
There's an exhibition of "American Art in the Third Millennium" at the Modern Art Museum at the moment - it's a bit repetitive and naïve in a way I don't like. For example, there's one exhibit with photos of Tom Cruise and a Palestinian suicide bomber next to each other - what do we think? Suicide is as dangerous as celebrity? No, it isn't. America and the "Orient" are opposed, with America trivial and "The Orient" serious? Again, not so simple. The artist just cut two striking pictures from the newspaper? In which case, I'm in the wrong career. But here's a few pictures of some of the exhibits. This isn't to endorse them.
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The thing about Antony Gormley is that the Field for Britain (the little terracotta figures) was made by thousands of people, each doing a different little man - the only rule was a maximum and minimum height limit and the fact that they weren't allowed facial features apart from the holes prodded in with a pencil. Which is a good idea: art being made by ordinary people and only organised by the artist. The declared aims of the work (a field of little men made by people all over Britain) meshes exactly with the method of its creation. It makes sense. This art didn't, really.
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