[TheForge] Art, doncha know....

[George Dixon]

The assertion that 'art is in the eye of the beholder' is more of an  
intellectual conversation stopper than an intellectual truth.

Perhaps analogy would make my perspective clearer:
I dislike country music...I like other styles of music.  However, any  
music poorly delivered sounds bad to anyone in earshot, like the  
genre or not.

It is obvious to the ear that music played onna out-of-tune  
instrument, country or classical, is being poorly executed.
Unfortunately the human eye does not have the instinctual reaction to  
bad 'art' that the ear has to bad musical execution.....

The result is art-speak, explanatory titles and 'eye of the beholder'  
compassion.

Again, the work stands alone and no amount of wishful thinking or  
nonjudgmental equivocations can change that.


In most cases there is no record of what an artist was thinking as he  
carved or painted or forged...there is simply the work itself.


George Dixon