SHARING WITH ME

When I first came across Genvieve Asse’s work in the permanent collection at Beaubourg, it reminded me a little of Mondrian whom I like so much (see APPRECIATING A MINIMALISTIC APPROACH - OH SO ME  Giorgio Morandi - Bruxelles - 12th June) The Kitchen 1946-47 Composition at the window 19 As far as I know she is still alive and working even at 90. One of the "grande dame" of French painting. A retrospective of work she had donated to the Beaubourg centre was on my list and luckily I checked the list this week as it will be finishing in a few days. 
 Until I went the other day, I did not know that she was also better known for the «bleu Asse» from which she has derived innumerable modulations since the beginning of the 50’s.  2002-2009 2002-2009 Blue still life 1955 2007 Geneviève Asse defines our world in very poetic terms:  “Beyond the horizon, the dawn, the shadowy greys, black-blues of clear seas,

So, what is art? Contemporay or modern....is it this? Vladmir Peric -  Mickey for a children's room            sarah-sze-US - 3 months to gather objects in Venise and to put them into place sarah-sze-US Russia - Danée coins falling from "heaven" Or perhaps this? deller - UK Walter de Maria  - Arsinale J.B. - FR- 2012 Or could it be this? Roberto Cuoghi- Arsenale Hans Josephsohn- Arsenale Mathew Monahan - Arsenale Catherine Lorent -Luxembourg Catherine Lorent -Luxembourg Catherine Lorent -Luxembourg My definition of art is something which lasts and lives with time. Installations of any kind are a set up of objects - whatever they may be - and could be desribed as works that are often site specific and designed to transform a given space. Outside installations  would be land art. I guess video art is moving pictures - not films but something