[TheForge] Art, doncha know....

[Stephen Snow]

I think the art *does* stand by itself...and we like it or we don't. Just because I don't like something, though, doesn't make it bad. It only means it isn't for me.

I like both Pollack and country music; I don't care for velvet Elvis and punk rock. Those who do like velvet Elvis and punk rock, though, can lay legitamite claim to its quality for them. Just as I don't like fabricated aluminum over hand-hammered steel...but the aluminum afficianados get their say just the way I do.

There are those who would say Harold Finster was just a nutcase and not a fantastic outsider artist. I'd disagree. But then, I like telephones painted with fingernail polish. ;-)

My $0.02.

Steve Snow



-----Original Message-----
>From: George Dixon <gdblacksmith at charter.net>
>Sent: Nov 7, 2007 3:11 PM
>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Art, doncha know....
>
>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
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