nix wrote:
Ice Age Art
This in Tuesday’s Guardian.http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art/about_the_exhibition.aspx
The actual Ice Age items look really worthy of a ganders but, as has been mentioned elsewhere, I’m not sure about the juxtaposition of, “...ancient ivory carvings with modernist works such as a Henry Moore sculpture and a Mondrian drawing. This [writes Jonathan Jones in the above] is sadly misguided. The avant-garde work of the 20th century echoes ice-age art – not to mention African masks and Oceanian statues – because artists like Picasso chose to emulate whatever freed their minds from western realism. These pairings tell us nothing about the ice age and are a distraction."
We’ll see :-)