notes from museums


2024


guggenheim

do I not like art? craft.
Jenny holzer, Richard serra, nara. art for children? instagram?
europeans come to look at American art

museo

gripping, emotional
mood, put you in time/place
historical

picasso

keep making constantly
wring the water out of life
be the mirror of your time
whatever path that takes
don't waste time...
what would inspire me to paint? to draw?
exhaustively copy a work you like, in your own way - like Picasso/Velasquez Las Meninas
come up with some multimedia art form, like poems on back of paintings
write or do a project based on the bourgeois culture of 19th and 20th century art - Gertrude stein, Picasso and contemporaries

muza

like prehistoric art, look to your surroundings: patterns of fish scales, butterfly wings, plants, native flowers. perhaps combine with foreign forms to juxtapose cultures and create meaning
-helos 🌞
portraits (busts) of SF
reliquaries and liturgical silver
old quotes about SF - recontextualize
write pieces about your interests in your own backyard
learn about the indigenous art of SF Bay Area nd help promote
primer on art history

v&a

"south asian sculpture is largely religious." what does it look like to have non-religious SA sculpture (and not craft)?
gandharvas - 'celestial musicians'
the mines of Golconda - finest diamonds of 17th/18th c.

AIC

Karoo ashevak
Yakutsk? cold siberia woman YouTube show
lois says: just learn about the pattern/drawing. then make informed decision about whether to use/how to use. and cite sources
look for powwows in SF bay
William Zurich "Summer" 1913
Florine Stettheimer
Peter Blume, 'the rock'
Hughie Lee Smith
"Desert forms"
in 1899, Monet stayed at the Savoy Hotel in London and just painted what he saw from his window
Van Gogh: to retrain himself, he copied works of artists he admired, which freed him from producing original compositions and allowed him to concentrate on interpretation
portraits of friends in front of artworks that relate to them: like, Ella in first year in front of Berthe Morisot's "Woman at her toilette" (1875)