Some of our book club members have moved from Claremont to LA and live near LACMA. That means that when we go to their place for book club, we stop by the art museum before we meet for book discussion. It's fun to go to LACMA with another of our book club members. He is an artist as well as the Associate Director at the Pomona College Museum of Art. He was particularly interested in seeing the exhibit called Four Abstract Classicists (which includes Claremont artist Karl Benjamin). He was greatly disappointed in the exhibit, however, and this is why. It consists of only 8 works. Only one Benjamin.
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| Karl Benjamin work on the left |
He also did not like the fact that these two Hammersley works were placed so close to one another. They are not naturally a pair, and the eye needs more space between non-related works.
In another room, he pointed out to us that the new rage is to place art in the salon-style, like it was done back in the day. (Think Isabel Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston.) Here are book club friends examining why it is difficult to enjoy individual works of art when hung in this manner.
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