Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The Salon


Art exhibits once consisted of busy looking installations like this. The many narratives jostling for attention is mind-boggling. The widely differently scaled pictures collaged together like wall paper is madding. But it also looks like a very big mess from which one might get innumerable ideas for making things. Artists hated it, but had they been able to envision today's antiseptic installation orthodoxy, they might have been less hasty to complain.

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