[TheForge] Art, doncha know....

[George Dixon]

> one mans moon beam is another mans masterpiece.   Ah..the self- 
> esteem movement strikes again.

I trust you have heard the cautionary tale 'The Emperor's New  
Clothes'.....

A story of a scam set against the shallowness of art-speak and vanity  
in which only a child (unaffected by the foolish fawning adults)  
stated the obvious, "the Emperor has no clothes on at all".

So long as the herd follows and enough vacuous adjectives are  
used.....it'll be art.

The "strongest defenses" of the current deficiencies in art here have  
been emotional or vague...or tied to a rare exception.   Egos are so  
fragile, eh?
As I said earlier, there are those who have an investment in the  
status-quo and there are those who care more about being 'known as an  
artist' than they are about what they produce.

Bottom line, good art does not need explanatory titles, superfluous  
adjectives or...any defense at all.
Nor does it need a gimmick to make it 'new'.  "Modern art" depends on  
all of that...and fawning adults with no enlightened kiddies in the  
room....to survive.

Get into the shop and prove me wrong....


Hah,
George Dixon