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To: Ilaine who wrote (15944)	12/30/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

CB, It is true that traditions change, and I wouldn't expect a modern artist to follow the themes of Caravaggio, or for that matter of Monet. But what modern art seems to lack to me (and I repeat that my entire knowledge of art comes from occasionally looking at it) is the absolute commitment to and mastery of the underlying craft that the great artists of the past achieved. I'm not saying that mastery of craft equals art, but that it is a necessary precondition to it. I suspect that this is not only due to the necessity of mastering the tools by which art is produced. Perhaps the intense self-discipline involved in mastering craft assists in some way in developing a creative spirit that can go beyond self expression (the last refuge of the artistic hack) and achieve expression of that which is beyond the self? But that brings me into waters far above my depth. Steve