Wednesday, February 3, 2010

food for thought i saw a putty catapult

i have a "midterm quiz" in art history this afternoon. 25 minutes, 8 pictures (3 minutes/picture which is also a SI unit called the "overhead rush", OR for short, that is to say every minute you spend staring desperately at a painting on an overhead trying to remember the nationality of its artist is 1 OR) and one of the artists is george grosz, who has an interesting quote:

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.
-Grosz
lots of goodies on the baohaus calendar, which is to say, if you're at all bored in the next week, drop me a line.
love
lelz

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