The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations,… - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations,…
The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expression… - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expression…
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chan… - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chan…
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing … - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing …
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic a… - Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic a…
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