Allysson Silva Designer Silva Designer itibaren South Grogol, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia itibaren South Grogol, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia

A highly entertaining critique of the modern art world. It reads casual --like a conversation you'd have with an old, cranky (yet rather wise) New Yorker on a Sunday stroll through the villages, through Union Square and up Fifth avenue all the way to the Met. Lots of belly-laugh material along the way...but, it's ultimately quite sad and disturbing that art standards went off-the-radar in such an absurd manner and to such a great degree-- that such a book as this could written (and true to reality). Unfortunately, Wolfe doesn't cover the sincere art world that went virtually underground as the modernist movement trashed the good and bad of the old world only to create something unimaginably laughable. I would have liked to have gotten his point-of-view on the artists who continued to bust their asses to learn master techniques, the human form, and most of all, esthetically valid forms of abstraction. Dali's 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship is a good companion read to Wolfe's Painted Word. Dali's writing and the painting is full of madness, but he knew what he was doing --he was a master of painting.