IN MY ELEMENT
After « The Fish Pond » I found myself reveling in poetry, music and image. It was a wonderful feeling. But had we seen everything that there was to see? How wonderful « Modern Classics » appeared before my eyes so up to the top floor of the Stedelijk Museum. We know that the great artists from the first half of the 20th century were mainly painters and sculptors. For a long time, art history focused on these disciplines which I discovered during my many conferences. Perhaps they overlooked other parts of the artists’ work? Along the way I have discovered that the « classic modernists » could turn their hand to anything: they made prints, designed textiles or stage sets….can you think of anyone that I am talking about? All the artists are well known and all of them spent extended period living and working in France and most of them were acquainted. They even challenged one another to explore new directions. Picasso encouraged Marc Chagall and Georges Braque to work with ceramics…