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His elusive journey into the art world and beyond is barely catalogued, but his identity is the first key to understanding such a life.
A look inside the Tate Modern reveals an exciting glimpse into modern art being made.
An installation called The Flooded Garden is on display – but it’s incomplete. It’s being done by members of the public and when I visited it was clear children were having a lot of fun having a go.
The point is to layer up people’s expression according to the artist Oscar Murillo who is behind the project in the Turbine Hall. It’s worth a look to admire the effort put in to create a public work of art by anyone who happened to visit.
Our access to public museums and art galleries is a part of our modern way of life. To see the ‘old’ art we have a relatively novel way of doing it; it’s publicly funded.
This isn’t exclusively the case, of course, because private benefactions pave the way for better – and greater – art and exhibitions in future. Yet it gives us all a way in.
In previous times art was generally there, but still relatively ‘exclusive’ to the classes reserved for it. They saw it and raved over it but the lower classes were generally left out.
Again, this wasn’t exclusively the case, but it generally went that art in its form was a higher purpose and a more leisurely form than, say, life itself. In fact, life itself was of more interest to artists than people.
This isn’t still technically true because we are better at appreciating our lives and ourselves. We have more reason to be glad than “ungrateful” (as it may have been called), and our progress is something to be proud of.
It’s something to marvel that we’ve come so far (but perhaps only thus far). Therefore, we also have art today, perhaps to show us the way, but also the view behind us, as well.