Catherine (from work) pointed me to Fate of the Animals a few years ago. She’s a PhD in modernist kind of matters, so I imagine has an encyclopedic knowledge of things of that era. I’ve a book on Modernism, which I’m part of the way through (read the introductory chapters, awaiting the motivation to dive in to the details), which shows how much of it prefigures WWI. It reminds me a bit of evolution, where when there’s some event which selects for one mutation, that’s a mutation that happens some time before the event, and so it looks like a kind of prophecy, in retrospect.

(Thanks for having the tuits to give this composit thing a go [as well as having the idea]!)

I’d not been aware of fate of the animals before today. Reminds me of William Blake.

“Where is the modern in modern art”
Now *that* is a very profound question. [goes off to think about it]

I guess I find that in works like Guernica and The Fate of the Animals (Fate of the Animals). The Fate was created in 1913, which is pretty amazing from a timeline point of view. I feel there’s a real lack, though, of what you describe (or at least of what that description means to me), or at least I’ve not found it. I’m sometimes after something which is a cross between Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, and perhaps the beautiful and human lines of perhaps Barbara Hepworth.

Where is the modern in modern art?