While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious,… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
