To: Servant of the Nine
Tom Wolfe covered all this in 1981 in "From Bauhaus to our house"
Not exactly. From Bauhaus to Our House (a book I enjoy tremendously, by the way) attacked contemporary architecture (Walter Gropius. White God No. 1. Young architects went to study at his feet. Some, like Philip Johnson, didn't get up for years...Mies van der Rohe. White God No. 2. He put half of America inside German worker cubes...Le Corbusier. He taught everybody how to become a famous architect without building buildings. He built a Radiant City inside his skull.), though on much of the same ground as Mr. Ross criticises modern art. Wolfe took his shot at the Picassos and their seed - and a remarkable one at that - in his earlier The Painted Word.
For my own taste, there was but one 20th Century painter worthy of inclusion with the masters: Salvador Dali.
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06/16/2002 2:42:12 PM PDT by
BluesDuke
To: BluesDuke
The only Picasso I ever liked.
Seems apropos to attach it to your post as this man is literally a Blue[s] Guitarist.
To: BluesDuke
For my own taste, there was but one 20th Century painter worthy of inclusion with the masters: Salvador Dali.I'm more of an Escher fan myself.
To each his own.
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