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

To: Jack Kennedy who wrote (33831)	4/5/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That is very interesting. My father was of Irish descent also and loved the rennaissance artists. He was especially fond of the Dutch masters - Vermeer was a favorite. He also loved engravings. But my dad was a librarian and sort of atypical- or so I thought. Maybe more men are sharing artistic interests with their children than I realized. I never have liked modern art either. It isn't beautiful to me. I have argued here on feelies that really great art needs to be accessible on many levels and needs to appeal even to the "uneducated". By that I do not mean uneducated in the sense of a scholastic education but one who has not been specifically educated to appreciate a certain kind of art (or someone who likes to show how much they know by saying they like a certain kind of art because "everyone" knows the artist is the flavor of the month). Some modern art is so distasteful that if you didn't know it was art you would think it was garbage. Heck some of it is made out of garbage. Same with music. I remember in music appreciation when we got to modern music there was a piece where a guy dropped a piano and recorded that. I am stuck on Bach myself. But there are a lot of music lovers here and I bet there are other Rachmaninoff lovers.