Robert Smithson's Profile
Brief about Robert Smithson: By info that we know Robert Smithson was born at 1938-01-02. And also Robert Smithson is American Artist.
Some Robert Smithson's quotes. Goto "Robert Smithson's quotation" section for more.Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Tags: Architecture, Art, PaintingParks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
Tags: Fact, Ideal, NatureQuestions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
Tags: Content, Questions, SeemThe museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Tags: Everywhere, Eye, MuseumThe museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Tags: Act, Past, RealitySome artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Tags: Control, End, FactWhen a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Tags: Gardening, Past, WorkArtists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Tags: Art, Artists, ThemselvesInstead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Tags: Forget, Future, PastThe scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Tags: Bliss, Calmness, NationalA vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Tags: Art, Seem, SeenA work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Tags: Art, Outside, WorkArt history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Tags: Art, History, TimeArt's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
Tags: ArtArtists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
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