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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (80834)	6/5/2000 9:45:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

From one standpoint, the relevant quote is "to each his own". After all, matters of taste are mostly harmless, and not worth fighting over. And it takes all kinds to make a world: If the world depended on me for its food supply, as a farmer or rancher, we would all be in trouble. I would make a better priest than soldier, a better teacher than banker, but we need the soldier, the banker, the engineer, etc. It is, then,inevitable that there will be rodeos and country music, wrestling and football, Yanni and Geddes, to entertain people according to their situation..... On the other hand, anyone who cares much about art will be perfectly happy to dispute reputations, because he wants what he considers the best art to prevail. It is because of people willing to fight for the Impressionists in the 19th century that they can be taken for granted now. Not only critics, but huge sections of the public rejected them, as being slapdash, with trivial or even sordid subject matter, with an occasional propensity to shock, and a steady propensity to intrude modern life into paintings. Without those willing to argue, they may never have found the collectors to support them, and might easily have remained a sideshow, instead of becoming the mainstream of art history.... Some of us care a great deal about art. I have been going to the National Gallery at least several times a year since I was in my teens, the Hirschorn and Phillips somewhat more rarely. I have been travelling to make major exhibits in New York an average of a couple times a year since my 20s. I also often go to Baltimore, and a couple of the other art museums in Washington pretty often. I read about it, think about it, discuss it, occasionally write about it. Well, not only is inevitable that my tastes should vary from most people, but that my attitudes should. On the one hand, "a chacun son gout", put Monet in the bathroom if you like. On the other, is it fitting or respectful? If art belongs merely to you to use as you will, there can hardly be an objection. If it is a patrimony to be cherished, well, things might be different.......