Grady Harp
SCHROEDER’S LAMENT
Four notes, four keys
proves Beethoven
is a genius.
De-de-de dah
da-da-da dum
so great the most famous symphony
in the world can be played
on a toy piano
Well, on my
special piano
My opinion? Never,
just ask Lucy, ask Charlie Brown,
ask Beethoven even
Modern art or modern music
isn’t.
Close my eyes plug my ears
and the real music is still
Beethoven or
Mahler or
Strauss or
Britten or
Adams
Guess it depends on
who’s listening
or looking.
“Who cares about money?! This is art, you blockhead! This is great music
I’m playing, and playing great music is an art! Do you hear me? An art! Art!
Art! Art! Art! Art!”
Grady Harp is a champion of Representational Art in the roles of curator, lecturer, panelist, writer of art essays, poetry, critical reviews of literature, art and music, and as a gallerist. He has presented premiere artists from throughout the world for such exhibitions as WADE REYNOLDS: Full Circle Retrospective, BODY LANGUAGE: Current Figurative Painters, INDOMITABLE SPIRITS: The Figure at the End of the Century and MEMENTO MORI: Contemporary Still Life. He has produced exhibitions for the Arnot Art Museum in New York, Fresno Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, and Cleveland State University Art Gallery and has served as a contributing artistic advisor for universities and colleges throughout California, in Berlin, the Centro Cultural de Conde Duque in Madrid, and in Oslo. From 1996 – 1998 his collaborative exhibition, WAR SONGS: Metaphors in Clay and Poetry from the Vietnam Experience toured the United States. He has provided chapters and Introductions to numerous books such as the recent Powerfully Beautiful and !00 Artists of the Male Figure . He is the art reviewer for Poets & Artists magazine and is the art historian for The Art of Man quarterly journal.
