Thursday, October 18, 2007

Art Upside Down

It was on this day in 1961 that Matisse's Le Bateau went on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Forty-seven days later, someone noticed that the picture was hanging upside down. An isolated incident? Far from it - check this. The George Baselitz exhibtion at the Tate must have been a nightmare to hang...

1 comment:

  1. it reminds me that the popular photographer and frustrated artist, Henri Cartier-Bresson said that a good test to see if an image worked was to turn it upside down.

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