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Your Time
Authority specifically with a review
is very important. In order to fully trust a writer, you should see key context
clues to know that they have knowledge in what they are talking about. The tone
of Peter Schjeldahl seems very informative towards the audience because how he
opened up his review. He starts it out with a quote saying “Where is the wisdom
we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?” which was said by T.S. Eliot’s “Choruses from ‘The Rock,’”. Based
off this quote, I know Schjeldahl has a lot of knowledge in the art background
considering T.S. Elliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright , literary and
social critic. He stated this quote because it came to his mind at the Museum
of Modern Art. This quote is significant because Schjeldahl is saying art has
lost its knowledge. People nowadays have no thought or no message in the art
works that are displayed at different venues.
Peter Schjeldahl’s way of saying
different paintings are ‘dead’ gives me the idea that he has authority in which
he knows what he is talking about. I am sure I can tell you that I do not know
what a ‘alive’ art work looks like compared to a ‘dead’ one. Another quote of
proving that the writer has a background of what he is reviewing is, “Painting
has lost symbolic force and function in a culture of promiscuous knowledge and
glutting information. Some of the painters in “Forever Now,” along with the
show’s thoughtful curator, Laura Hoptman, face this fact.” Saying that painting
has lost symbolic force gives the audience proof that he’s experienced in art
reviewing if he knew the changes that had happened.
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