The Steins

March 12, 2012 by joachim

The Metropolitan Museum: Little did I know Gertrude Stein had siblings (like Leo Stein) who also made a mark on their time. The exhibit is overwhelming in its scope — the pictures by Picasso alone make the trip worth. But it is the realization that Gertrude’s Salon has forever changed the history of art that hit me most — it was the place where unknown artists with a new vision gained respectability that they could not find elsewhere.

This is the familiar paradigm of the unrecognized, the underdog, finally making it in the world, despite all odds. This is where our sympathies are, and this is why presidential candidates in this country dwell in stories depicting them barefoot making the newspaper rounds.

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