travelswithalice

I'm in the Sculpture Garden resting my feet and trying to digest the contents of both my hurried lunch and the lecture I came here for. Lunch was very good so I was unhappy about rushing through it. I barely made it to the 1:30 lecture- I was the last to be admitted to the limited group of 25.

Giacometti, Tall Figure Sculpture III

First, the lunch. Cold soup of tomato and grilled vegetables, I think, and two bruschettas, one with buffalo mozzarella and one with marinated cherry tomatoes. Plus oatmeal cookies which I had to pack away in a napkin for later as it was time for the lecture.

The lecture. Sculpture from Picasso to Today. It was fascinating. I am always amazed at how much one can say about any work of art. How much artistic, cultural, or revolutionary value one can assign to an art object and its creator. I don't think the lecturer appreciated my question after an expansive discussion on the significance of Duchamp's bicycle wheel fastened onto a stool (I forget the title):

Do you think he intended to do all that?

Duchamp's bicycle wheel