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To: Poet who wrote (165)	1/10/2001 11:09:07 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 82486

During my last visit to New York, my wife and I spent the afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art... one of the exhibits on the wall in the impressionist wing of the museum was a canvas with a splash of mud on it... that's all, just a splash of mud on a blank canvas... the canvas was in a modest frame and the title of the work was "Dried Earth On Canvas." I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen hanging in that museum... I know if I put mud on a canvas and offered it to the Museum of Modern Art as an artwork, they would probably call the police and have me escorted out the door along with my "artwork"...<g> still, it's art since it's a genuine form of human expression... I just felt a bit taken when I saw that piece of impressionist work hanging right there next to Gauguin and Van Gogh.....<g> GZ

To: Poet who wrote (165)	1/10/2001 2:40:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm no fan of attempts to squelch artistic freedom. I'll never forget seeing the Mapplethorpe exhibit here in Ct., just before all the fuss was made about its content. It was the moving art exhibit I've ever seen. Absolutely life-changing for me, as a matter of fact. I'm glad I had the opportunity to see it. But do you think that artist should be supported by the government through grants? I don't think that artistic freedom should be squelched, but I certainly don't think that government should get involved in the funding of the arts either. I believe that Mapplethorpe had an NEA grant and that was what much of the objection was about. (I could be wrong about the NEA grant, if somebody knows for sure, please enlighten us).