a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Grand
Forks Art Gallery - April 27 to June 5, 1999
installation
west gallery
The words written by Gertrude Stein in the early 1900's have come to symbolize the intensely creative character of the art of that period.
The poet Gertrude Stein lived for many years in Paris. Her involvement exemplifies the cross-fertilization that occurred during that period. Picasso, Braque and Matisse were friends and they frequently mingled with writers like Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson at her salon. Her own work seemed to parallel Cubist theories with her use of slightly varied repetitions, fragmentation and simplification.
The theme of this exhibition - a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose comes out of this multi-disciplinary aspect of those early years of this century. Paris in 1900 was the center of western culture; artists, poets, writers, composers, and philosophers congregated and interacted in ways that greatly enhanced the cultural ferment, and the varied disciplines enjoined in an incredible search, experiment and discovery. The changes, the ideas and the results were revolutionary and people profoundly affected.
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose in 1999 at the Grand Forks Art Gallery isn’t
really about roses. It has more to do with the connection still
held in common with the spirit of that time early in this century,
that intensely creative period. It is about art and artists who
now make art from a place and a time of astounding change and
pace of ideas. Science, engineering, medicine, music, literature
still forge ahead, and art endures in its expression of this
experience.
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