I like what you say about the vagueness (or perhaps obliqueness would be a funkier word) of modern art. I was at Tate Modern on Sunday, and was struck with that very point - that modern art generally has an incomplete or entirely absent construct, whilst much traditional art is fully constructed leaving little ambiguity (although that is by no means set in stone - cf Holbein's "The Ambassadors", various religious art, etc etc).
The thing I found particularly interesting this weekend is that they've demolished Rachel Whiteread's "Embankment", which is currently lying in shredded form in about fifty large white sacks. However, those sacks are arranged in a square on the Level 2 balcony, next to a notice about the work, which leads me to suspect Whiteread is pulling a sneaky flanker at getting a second artwork out of it...
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Date: 2006-05-16 08:39 pm (UTC)The thing I found particularly interesting this weekend is that they've demolished Rachel Whiteread's "Embankment", which is currently lying in shredded form in about fifty large white sacks. However, those sacks are arranged in a square on the Level 2 balcony, next to a notice about the work, which leads me to suspect Whiteread is pulling a sneaky flanker at getting a second artwork out of it...