Art+Pop Culture=Confusion.
CloudCloak
From: cloud...@aol.com (CloudCloak)
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 1998 12:41 EDT
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Subject: Re: Art is a necessity no
From: jpou...@islandnet.com (Jack Poulter)
Date: Sun, Aug 16, 1998 13:06 EDT
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To: ALL
Subject: Re: Art is a necessity not a want
B>From: brot...@aol.com (Brother 17)
B>Magic is a performance art. It is wide open to all personality
B>types. If people do not like Penn & Teller, they won't pay to
B>see them.
B>Mr. Hayes
I had the opportunity to travel to Seattle last November to see
P&T live on stage. The theatre was sold out on opening night,
yet it was the one at which I could get the best seats, way up in
the balcony. I can only assume the subsequent shows were equally
well patronized.
The show was outstanding! They are far better in person, IMO,
than on TV. (This could likely be said of most magicians.)
And despite a supposedly inflated ego, how many performers
spend about an hour in the lobby after the show actually talking
to the audience, not merely signing autographs and urging them
out the door?
Why do we allways confuse popularity with being good at somethng? Yanni
concerts are sold out all over the world , yet no one I have ever met
consideres Yanni a real musician/composer.
Van Gough the great Dutch artist died penniless becasue his paintings were
thought to be technically immature as well as downright primitive in style. In
1986 his painting "Sunflowers In Arles sold for 44 million almost This one
hundred years after his death.
It was a very trendy and popular life style objective, to own slaves in this
country at
one time. Does this mean that slavery was a good thing?
Point is that popularity is never an idicator of art or good taste merely that
a perfoming event is (POP)ulated ,(POP)ular.
Shakespeare, Mozart, Joyce, Georgia O'keefe, etc have endured the test of time
thats what makes them calssics. What magician other then Houdini has endured?
To think otherwise is unfair to magic as an art form and more important unfair
to life in general.
Resepectfully,
CloudCloak