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To: Edwarda who wrote (50433)	8/10/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

Edwarda, I hope you will pardon me for using you to insert a couple of comments......Artistic criticism is not just a matter of revealing one's responses, but relating the particular work to the array of works comprising the art form. The intent is to rate it by comparison, to take note of innovation, and to praise mastery. Obviously, one is in a better position to judge to the extent that one has familiarity with a multitude of works. Not only that, but obviously what one enjoys will differ to a greater or lesser extent from what someone who has been less interested in thoroughness will enjoy. What seems to him fresh, will seem to you hackneyed; what seems to him elegant will seem to you a bit unwieldy; what seems to him bizarre will have context to you, and make sense; and so forth. The responses will not necessarily differ profoundly, but they might. Since there is no earthly reason for a person to feel obliged to become a connoisseur of a particular art, there is no reason to consider divergence in taste as a "problem". Divergence among those who are more informed is more troubling, but sometimes a work is sufficiently innovative or difficult that it must be chewed over...and besides, there is always an irreducible element of personal quirkiness....