Another Tuesday Talk

[poliphilo]

This morning's Tuesday Talk at the Whitworth was a bit dull.  It dealt with an exhibition few in the audience will have seen (because it was in London) and none of us will ever see in future (because it closed last month). On the way home- prompted by the speaker's characterisation of himself as a "high modernist"  who distrusts narrative-  we discussed whether art could ever free itself from narrative and decided it couldn't.

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[oakmouse]

And now I want to go view Motherwell's "Elegies for the Spanish Republic" again, speaking of narrative and art. *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Those are new to me. I'm impressed. Abstract, but full of narrative.

[oakmouse]

Aren't they amazing? I was originally introduced to them by a canny art history professor who showed the class a series of slides of all of the paintings, in order, and chuckled quietly to himself as the image grew clearer and clearer and we started going, "Oh. OH. THAT'S what those are!"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

LOL. I believe there are over 100 of them. That's remarkable.

[oakmouse]

That sounds about right, yes. I know we saw one slide every five seconds or so for perhaps ten or twelve minutes. He just ran them through click --- click --- click --- click with no voiceover.