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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (259)	1/10/2001 11:06:28 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 82486

My principal complaint about government subsidies for the arts is that I don't think they produce very good art. It's pretty clear that while we have more artists than ever before, we have less and less notable art. (A matter of taste, possibly, but who do we put up against a Carravaggio or a Rembrandt?) Why is this? My own explanation, probably no better than anybody else's: In the old days, if you wanted to be a painter, you apprenticed yourself to a master. You ground his pigments, swept his floor, endured his moods. You suffered. You mastered your craft. And if you weren't truly driven or truly committed, you quit. Artists in other media faced similar obstacles. When I look at today's art I just don't see that suffering, that mastery, or the maturity and depth that comes from overcoming great obstacles. I don't think those are things that government money can produce.

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