‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
No?
Or perhaps more importantly, who cares?
‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
No?
Or perhaps more importantly, who cares?
“Art history is a strange science. The landscape can totally shift. The buzzwords today are inclusivity and diversity. Women artists are being promoted, as well as queer artists. This explains – partly – why Moss is getting so much attention.”
…which pretty well tells you all you need to know. Mondrian’s style is a developmental dead end: where are you going to go from here? It’s not surprising someone else got there first, and there’d be almost no interest at all in Moss were she not a lezzer.
Also telling: When Moss moved to Cornwall, settling in the beautiful and remote Lamorna Cove near Penzance, she made repeated efforts to contact sculptor Barbara Hepworth and her painter husband Ben Nicholson. They ignored her.
Chalk up another success to Betteridge.
“Yet, should you visit the Kunstmuseum today…”
Art wouldn’t be what I was expecting, I’d be expecting the life and times of one late and unlamented K Starmer…
Wouldn’t be in the Kunstmuseum, they have actual standards when it comes to Art….
Maybe in the World Museum Amsterdam ( formerly Museum of the Tropics, but they “shed their Colonial Past”…)
“Closet Gays and their Impact in Politics” sounds about right… and would be right up their alley.
“Oooh, Missus!”
FFS, these people infest our institutions, charities, public sector and (sadly) private companies, hoovering up grants and public funds and taking time off work to attend “safe spaces”.
“Some LGBTQ+ commentators have suggested that Moss’s use of double lines may have been her response to a world that didn’t make space for a gay woman who dressed in masculine clothes. Since her double lines didn’t cross other lines, she effectively opened up a new space on a canvas – one she may have longed for in the real world.”
At least they’re inventive. Gotta give them credit for that. I’m not sure even Artybollocks would have come up with that “interpretation”:
https://artybollocks.com/
Thanks for that, I’ve just sent it to my wife and I’m sure she’ll approve. She always has difficulty writing statements for galleries and enjoys mocking the bollocks some artists come up with.
One for Pseuds Corner, there!
The same could be said about a 1960s child with an Etch-a-sketch.
The institution is redundant and once it becomes redundant, it first goes mad.
You used to have to go to galleries to see art. Now they’re on Wikipedia. The most iconic post war art is in cinemas and advertising.
People get all “the BBC/royal opera have gone to shit”. Yeah. They’re like an old horse. It won’t work like it did.
“Mondrian, however, would go on to become famous for the double line.”
I did not know that. i wish i paid more attention to history of art at school.
So nothing to do with parking rules then?
Long before that. But did Trevithick influence Stephenson in the origin of the double line? Or was it based on Roman chariot tracks?
Stephenson was influenced by Euclid – parallel lines vastly reduced (almost eliminated) the incidence of trains crashing into themselves.
Double line. Coke?
No thanks, there are far too many kunts running around today to need a museum dedicated to them.
That’d be Kutmuseum in dutch two letters less… 😉
And while that description is valid, and often heard, for every museum for most Youf on mandatory school trips there is an actual museum that fits the bill. Amsterdam of course..
Have the Krauts yet returned the bicycles they nicked in ’45.
We never needed them to… It allowed them to come back pretty soonish, and let themselves be fleeced as Tourists..
We’re a *trading nation*, Bongo… Why upset the cow you can milk for a *long* time?
The only peeps still “milking” the War are Perpetually Traumatised “Jews” , and Beau Pensants
grifting onriding the coat-tails of the Holocaust Memory NGO’s and Foundations.The rest of us see Oktoberfest as just a good enough reason to have a Party in the pub as st.Paddy’s. And feel Dirndls are a better look than French Maids..
The only peeps still “milking” the War are Perpetually Traumatised “Jews” , and Beau Pensants grifting on riding the coat-tails of the Holocaust Memory NGO’s and Foundations.
These people make more noise about it than their grandparents who lived through it.
Like why are we putting up a holocaust memorial in London now? I can very much understand why Jews in London would build one after the war. They lost family in the Holocaust, many of them were children who came here. But if you managed without one in the 1960s, why build one now? Who are the young Benjamins and Helens remembering? Kids born after 2000 being told about great granny who died as a young girl in Belsen in the 1940s. Why not go back to the Napoleonic war, or that somewhere back in 20 AD your ancestors were getting gang raped by centurions in Judea?
Also, yeah, girls with large jugs carrying large jugs probably tops the feather duster.
Thank you Grikath. If I ever go to Europe again, I must make a point of visiting it.
My brother in Christ, its a geometric shape painted on canvas. If she was any good at it she’d have been appreciated for it.
How many people have bought a Mondrian print, other than show-offs? I don’t mind it, but it’s not like paintings by Monet, Turner or Goya that we feel something from looking at them.
The answer “but you didn’t” is not a good enough answer to “anyone could do that” because why would you want to look at something that any fool could do, rather than something that is rare and brilliant? No-one travels to London for cooking as good as they can knock out, or to hear someone sing Habenera at the Royal Opera as badly as they do.