Jirō Yoshihara, Japanese 1905–1972

1958

Oil on canvas

Carnegie Museum of Art

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    1 year ago

    In the end, I think art museums and other places that display art could and should do a better job at giving the context for a given piece to understand it

    I can understand a piece made by cavemen thousands of years ago without needing any context. Context should make you enjoy the piece even more, or to contrary flip the emotions it made you feel and make you despise it. Art that is only understood via it’s context, while a nice gimmick at first, ultimately doom it to become meaningless if that context is ever lost. If the apocalypse come and humanity is destroyed. Hundreds years later, a survivor find the fan given as an exemple in the video above. It is now an ordinary fan among millions of others.