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To: marcos who wrote (39805)	6/8/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

I will respond in some semblance of seriousness later tonight... your post deserves an attention that I cannot give it right now:-)...

To: marcos who wrote (39805)	6/8/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

Love it! Best art criticism I have read in a LONG time! Ho, ho, ho... jbe

To: marcos who wrote (39805)	6/9/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Matisse wanted to create an art that was "calm, voluptuous (or sensual), and luminous", the sort of thing that would give repose to the intellectual worker, refreshing him...Fra Angelico wanted to glorify God and increase devotion...Marcel Duchamp wanted to "play" with the conception of art, and goose the rich patrons at the same time...Willem DeKooning tried to "move" us, by the abandon of his brush stroke, but there was no definite agenda accept a vague notion of "progress"...Art is used for many things, but if we are going to judge it as art, not message, then to some extent we have to be indifferent to its overall social affects, which are generally speculative in any case.(Does anyone think that Jenny Holzer has influenced anyone's vote? Only people who agree with her messages pay much attention in the first place...)Otherwise, politics will swamp art history and appreciation...