Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Trying to make sense of all these isms

The more galleries and art I see the more my head has been befuddled by the different groups, styles and titles, Cubism or post expressionism or pointillism etc ( as you can see I have been looking at at lot of late 19th and early 20th century art recently). Now the hard systems part of my make up has had enough of all this and so I have sat down this evening to try and draw up some rudimentary chart which fits all these together and I have succeed in as far as any chart can really capture something as nebulous as influences and loose alliances. Of course the truth is that you have to spend years studying art history to really understand all the differences and to be quite honest I'm not interested in that. No what I want is some straightforward chart to help me through the maze and I think I have achieved that - sort off. Sent from my iPad

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