DailyPhoto 05-31-09 (Cezanne)
Sunday May 31, 2009.
D. and I saw the Cezanne and Beyond art exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I had been pretty unenthusiastic about seeing this particular show and really wasn’t going to bother but then I renewed our membership and the tickets were free, so why not? It was pretty nice I guess, and the comparative approach was interesting and well-done. But I just feel like I’m so over the whole 20th century European White Male Canon of Great Art thing. It’s just so…safe…I don’t know. It’s not that I dislike Cezanne et al., just that I feel like I’ve seen it all before. It’s always the same 10-20 Big Names in this kind of show. I want to see something new, something obscure, something I haven’t seen before, something I don’t see in every damn museum of art I go to no matter which city it is in…It doesn’t inspire me anymore, and that’s what I want, to be inspired, to go to an exhibit and come away wanting to run home and make my own art.
