I'm thinking of "The moldau" by Smetena.
Why not.
mando
On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
Last night, during the opening of her show, a young Chinese woman
from the
"stinking ninth class" (i.e. a family of intellectuals) took a
small group of
us down to the gallery basement to show us some works in progress, and
bitterly complain that nobody understood her paintings (however
much we may be
liking them)
For example, she had painted a display of flowering branches, and she
explained how the ones in the foreground represented the self, the
middle-ground was the self's immediate world of home/job/friends,
and the
flowers in the distance represented society and civilization -
while each
different species of flower had a special meaning known to those who
specialize in flowers.
She really seemed quite serious about all this. She had something
important to
communicate and people just weren't getting it.
So now I'm wondering -- is there any law against her posting text
next to
every painting ? Would it make a difference if that text were more
like poetry
and less like an index of explanatory footnotes ?
And it also occurred to me that, even though she practices European
techniques, she comes from a world where extensive text and images
are often
displayed together, while we don't really expect that in our Euro-
centered
artworld, outside of Medieval manuscripts, illustrated books, and,
of course,
William Blake.
Done anyone know of an artist who wants the display of his or her
work to be
accompanied by explanatory text ? (perhaps that happens in those
museums of
contemporary art that are so foreign to me)
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