Thursday, October 18, 2007
Art Upside Down
It was on this day in 1961 that Matisse's Le Bateau went on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Forty-seven days later, someone noticed that the picture was hanging upside down. An isolated incident? Far from it - check this. The George Baselitz exhibtion at the Tate must have been a nightmare to hang...
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
it reminds me that the popular photographer and frustrated artist, Henri Cartier-Bresson said that a good test to see if an image worked was to turn it upside down.
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