tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post4425059515485370597..comments2024-03-25T03:15:21.061-07:00Comments on Art Contrarian: What They Say and What We SeeDonald Pittengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307228686847434740noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-62666949338847084802012-06-15T11:41:15.486-07:002012-06-15T11:41:15.486-07:00Greetings,
I have enjoyed your site. I think I fo...Greetings,<br /><br />I have enjoyed your site. I think I found it by "ixquick"ing Ottoline Morrell. I'm reading a not bad biography by Miranda Seymour.<br /><br />Roger Fry in 1909 (from Ottoline Morrell; Life on the Grand Scale, Seymour, p. 122): . . . "What I do protest against is . . . an attitude to art which is strange . . . is the result of wilful mystification and caprice on the artist's part . . ."<br /><br />I suspect artists are somewhat involved in "wilful mystification" but the patrons such as Morrell were equally involved, surely. Maybe more so. My theory is that as the West moved away from myth and religious belief the need for mystification moved to the verbal rather than pictoral. Morrell, however, was supposedly a devout Christian. At least until 1909 which is where I'm at in the book.<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-53026669816307944432012-05-07T17:30:16.597-07:002012-05-07T17:30:16.597-07:00I also think it is counterproductive when this typ...I also think it is counterproductive when this type of writing appears on museums. We have the exact feeling you mentioned: what we are seeing doesn't match what we are reading.Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16549467720857136573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-10317107302166593202012-04-27T02:12:26.341-07:002012-04-27T02:12:26.341-07:00"dream"? How about 'drear'?"dream"? How about 'drear'?deariemenoreply@blogger.com