The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
