Lovely sunny public holiday Monday (Labour Day). We head off to the Art Gallery of NSW to ingest a bit of culture and lunch. The Culture is an exhibition: The Mad Square, Modernity in German art 1910–37.
It sounds like a Mastermind specialist subject, but was much more interesting than that with lots of nude ladies and bizarre portrayals of murders. Or as the catalogue put it: “In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity – edgy, provocative, yet utterly compelling.”
I love isms in my German kunst – and there were plenty, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Constructivism, Bauhausism, New Objectivityism, concluding with caesar saladism. I’ve added a dash of extra Dada to the photo of me.
In German, an “ism” is an “ismus”, so they call those stunning kunst movements Expressionismus, etc.
Haha. The ismus is in Panama, everybody knows that.