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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (105037)	5/27/2005 1:08:02 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Most people who don't think of the crucifix in urine as art didn't take a lot of art appreciation courses in college, and don't regularly visit art museums, and don't read articles about art or follow contemporary artists. There is a big sort of anti-art movement that basically believes that art must be pretty and hopefully should match the sofa! Art is actually often a political statement, and can be realistic or abstract.decor. Photography can definitely be art. Art is created to provoke an emotional response in the viewer. Period. I could possibly appreciate that a photo of the Koran being flushed down the toilet was art in this same sense. However, did the soldier create this photo in a studio, or did he make some totally innocent Muslim detainees watch him flush the Koran down the toilet? This takes it beyond art into an entirely different realm--human rights abuses.