RE.Doris Carter Ford--Art Chicago

[melvi...@my-deja.com]

I have seen the citizens of Chicago and other major cities raising hell
about the ridiculous metal"scultures by a woman"--I have seen the
cities citizens raise hell about a huge wall as art that cost millions;
that they have to walk around(the artist claiming this was an integral
part of the art work-vis a vis wall).

So I must in good conscience disagree with you.I have talked to people
who have been in Chicago's public museum and they have told the so
called abstract art vis a vis Picasso is an expensive taxpayer disgrace!

So I shall continue on the course I am on--as far as my disagreements
with others on the sorry state of America's cultural Dark Ages of
illiteracy-they will continue!

melvin3620

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:25:47 -0500, Rita <rjkin...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 02:15:27 GMT, melvi...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>all).
>>
>>So I must in good conscience disagree with you.I have talked to people
>>who have been in Chicago's public museum and they have told the so
>>called abstract art vis a vis Picasso is an expensive taxpayer disgrace!
>>

>My introduction to art was at the Chicago Art Institute when I was
>age 15 and I fell in love with Picasso's painting "The Lovers".
>Also with paintings from his Blue Period. The man was a genius
>who painted in so many styles over his long career.
>There is no need to trash art that does not appeal to you. There is
>plenty to go around to suit all tastes.
>
>I download art from various sites on the web and always have a
>painting on my desktop -- change them frequently. I have been
>looking for a Picasso to add to my collectionl

I have Picasso's "Deux femmes courantes sur la Plage" of 1923
hanging on the wall over my computer. I saw the original at the
Picasso museum in Paris and could hardly take my eyes off it.

I assume you've tuned into the Web Museum?
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

Picasso is gone, I think, due to complaints from the curators of
his estate. I managed to get quite a bit before it was closed down.
Dali seems to be gone too.

Below are a couple of links that are maybe a bit off the beaten
track:

Mediaeval stuff
http://www.kb.nl/kb/100hoogte/menu-tours-en.html

Beardsley
http://www.1890s.org/sub/beardsley.htm

Beerbohm's "Rosetti and his circle"
Don't miss the last caricature, of Oscar Wilde on tour,
entitled "Rosetti's name is heard in America" .
(My favorite work of Rosetti is not a painting, but his
poem "The Blessed Damozel". It's so full of striking
visual imagery that it seems like a painting anyway.)
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/mb/circlecontents.html

Jim Breen's uiyo-e gallery at
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/ukiyoe.html

There's one lonely Tanguy at:
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/tanguy/