The Reach of Modern Art Quotes

“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for the object to be invented. To the criticism that it was rude he replied, logically enough,"How could this object be acceptable when displayed in a plumber's shop window and yet be immoral anywhere else?”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.”
― Neville Weston, The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History