Visited the Tate Modern Museum today to attend two more of their free tours. So I have now seen all four. I like Modern Art because of how the artists are trying to come up with new ways to communicate ideas. And I have a growing interest in communication.
On the way to the museum, someone asked me if I knew how to speak English. Kind of a strange question to ask someone in the middle of London. But anyway, he wanted to know what the word 'decoy' meant. I said 'a wooden duck'. I am sure there is a more witty answer to this question.
Anyway from the tours I learned some trivia.
A painting called 'Lilith' was done by Anselm Keifer to show the overgrowth and decay of San Paolo of Brazil. Does anyone know who Lilith is? We have the Lilith Fair concerts at home...
Turns out Lilith is, in ancient mythology, Adam's first wife who refused to be subjugated by Adam and was therefore forced to cavort with the devil and give birth to 100 babies a day who died each night. I did a brief search on the internet and found more on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith .
I also learned that Monet is said to be the inspiration to both the modernist movement and Rodin's sculptures. True? Is it just name dropping? Does it matter?
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