Please allow me from time to time on this blog (and probably expect it!) to share with you, as I'm about to do (whether anyone reads this or not) some photos and accompanying poetically drippy thoughts. If it made me think, or inspired me in some way, that made it worth while enough for me to wait on my...."smart" phone until it was good and ready take the shot.
To many a brave soul a sign like this may mean drudgery + paycheck, but to the eye of a tourist-ically inclined fellow such as I, it means adventure. Let's take the bus into the city, shall we?
"Interior with a Girl Drawing"
Made it over to the Museum of Modern Art. I stared at this portion of a Picasso painting for a good long time...close up, than far, close, than far...Thought, "What inspires a painter to put the colors where they do?" It made me think, so I took a picture of it to remember my...thinking.
Think he was thinking outside the box (or...face) with this one?
Ya, think? (Okay, enough!)
I quote from the MoMA website: "...Duchamp’s first readymade, a class of objects he invented to challenge assumptions about what constitutes a work of art...By simply selecting prefabricated items and calling them art, he subverted established notions of the artist’s craft and the viewer’s aesthetic experience."
I walked around this, chuckling to myself, lest I be booted out of the exhibiit. But then again, maybe that's the reaction good 'ol Marcel wanted. The audio tour said he wanted people to "ask questions". Mission accomplished!
BONUS READING! (for those with more time):
"The 1913 Bicycle Wheel was lost, but nearly four decades later Duchamp assembled a replacement from newly found prefabricated parts and affirmed that the later version is as valid as the original.
Sure would have.....,liked to have seen.....,the.....,"original" one...
Stay tuned for Part 2 and beyond!
