<p>In general, I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Of course, it’s incredibly cool – the chances of seeing all the works at once are zero. Here you’ll find all the most famous: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Otterness, Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp (with his fountain), etc.</p>
<p>I love to absorb art (especially modern), having prepared myself by reading beforehand. It seems relatively pointless to try to “feel” a work if you don’t even know when it was made, what was happening in the world, where the author was, and what they were thinking. It’s just a shot in the dark, so most of the time I go to look at specific artists/authors that I already know something about. But today, one work did catch my attention. I’ll attach it — to understand what’s going on, you don’t need a description or research. This is a work by Richard Hamilton.</p>
<p>P.S. I want to note separately that ChatGPT is changing all aspects of our lives, including the study of art. It has become a habit for me to keep records of museums, films, books, and art that I encounter. Now, when preparing for a museum visit, I simply copy all my notes from Roam Research, turn on Deep Research, ask it to highlight what I should look at, but what’s especially valuable — I ask it to reference what I’ve already seen and thought about. It works incredibly well: contrasting the art of Andy Warhol with how Wassily Kandinsky lived and thought, finding parallels between the influence of advertising and media with the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky. Incredible.</p>
