Of Art and Relevance
While New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is flush with cash, its Metropolitan Museum of Art is cash-strapped. It seems that current museum goers in our highly technological world are much more interested in modern and abstract art than in classical, Renaissance, impressionist art. Museum-goers more readily relate to modern art.
It seems, I will have to adjust in order to relate to modern society and its different but nuanced interpretation of life:
Managing Director at The Following Sea
8 年It's a shame you weren't there Barry to explain this to Teddy Roosevelt when he preserved 290 million acres of U.S. land and thousands of species in our natural history museums. I'm sure he would have appreciated your "high tech" approach to the appreciation and preservation of nature. Come to think of it, so would have Emerson, Hemingway, etc., etc.
Managing Director at The Following Sea
8 年Sandu, thank you for your interesting comment. In a sister photo essay, I've shown Gericault's "Le Radeau de la Meduse," the raft of the Medusa, a painting which shocked Paris with its vivid depictions of death and suffering. Because of the hubris of its captain, the Medusa, "La Meduse" ran aground on its way to Senegal. Horrors follow the hubris of gods, tyrants, business persons, military commanders, ships captains and yes, politicians.
Mentor & Prosperity Coach
8 年Thanks for sharing William and Shirin. In my view, the sharks (from the sea painting) are now the financial trends graphics (in the modern and abstract art), even more dangerou$, lethal and bloody, pointing to the New World Financial Order, negative rates, ca$hle$$ society ... ;)