Paul Berger is a staff writer at The Forward. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The (London) Times, The Daily and Guardian.co.uk.

Feb
22

Oil on Canvas

By

infopainting.jpg

David at Ironic Sans is an ideas machine:

If I had the time, the means, and the resources, I’d make a series of large paintings of those little cards that describe paintings in museums. They would be paintings of the cards that describe themselves. For example, I’d do a painting in oil on canvas that describes itself as being an oil painting on canvas. Then I’d hang it in a gallery next to a little card that’s identical to the painting, but is actually there to describe the painting. I’d do a whole series, with different materials. Oil on canvas, Acrylic on wood, etc.

1 Comments

1

Nice idea. Could make the curators take a critical eye to those texts. Brooklyn Museum do cool ones where their visitor comments go up about the works of art.

Oh, and I’d add audioguide #…my bias

Leave a Comment

pdberger on twitter

custom writing