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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8318)	9/6/2001 6:13:05 PM
From: Bicycle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

A few years ago, our national gallery purchased a painting "Voice of Fire" for over a million dollars. This painting consisted of a vertical blue stripe on a red background. home.istar.ca Many common people feel that the public treasury was abused profoundly when this painting was purchased. Those same people were said to possess no appreciation for works of art. I think the people who opposed this tragic waste were standing on the same ground as the child who shouted "The Emperor is naked!" Bye4Now, FD.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8318)	9/6/2001 7:04:21 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

re Modern art, my own opinion is this (and I take a back seat to no one in my love of art): I have no doubt that many of the modern works I have seen in museums over the years will not be treasured by posterity. There is some good stuff out there, and there is a lot of quasi-fraudulent schlock that simply appeals to some people's immediate and transient sense of ego and snobbery. It will be rightly forgotten and discarded.