Saturday, March 06, 2010


"Emperor's New Clothes"!

Visiting 'Tate Modern' today I cannot help feeling that some modern art is a lot of pretentious nonsense, in fact I felt that there was more artistic merit in some of the graffiti further along the Southbank!

I had a similar experience a few months ago when visiting the Futurist exhibition at the Tate - and then going on to 'Dan Dare' at the Science Museum. The Futurist manifesto (a sort of proto-fascism in my opinion) was juvenile and the art-work little better but the 1950's British Sci-Fi hero had the merit of being truly prescient and having some cool cartoon images.

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