Picasso - Art or Crap??/yes -dali, no -worm tracks

[PSmith9626]

dear mary,
One problem is that art and politics have been confused. Though there was
always some connection, a political statement alone is not art.
Also that is derivative: Marcel Duchamp already exibited a urinal as art.
Boring to see this again so many years later.
best
penny

I think Dali and Kandinsky both the equal of Renoir.
Mondrian, well--that is another story.

Jackson Pollack--well, abstract impressionism --worms dipped in paint, crawling
around--does it make me a snob not to equate that with Phidias,Praxilites, and
Michaelangelo?

( yes, I know, the man chose the best worm tracks, in the eastern way.)

[mark lages]

> Jackson Pollack--well, abstract impressionism --worms dipped in
> paint, crawling around--does it make me a snob not to equate that
> with Phidias,Praxilites, and Michaelangelo?

No.

Ahem...I mean NO!!!!!!

They are not even within the same ballpark.

....Mark

[Gerry]

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> Jackson Pollack--well, abstract impressionism --worms dipped in
> paint, crawling around--does it make me a snob not to equate that
> with Phidias,Praxilites, and Michaelangelo?

It would seem that the worms are doing the work, not the man.
Therefore the worms are the artists, and the man is merely an editor
of sorts. :) Of course, the worms are unlikely to enforce their
interests in the copyright.

- -Gerry

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[dennis curtis]

Kandinsky yes, Dali no. Worm tracks? Excellent! A ton of museum
money is spent each year to put Pollack's work back on his canvases.
Renoir did well for a blind man. Albert Pinkham Ryder was a slouch,
but did fabulous work. --dennis
BTW-- Why do we bother to keep up ? -dc

[dennis curtis]

Phidias had his own field. Rumour has it that he invented patch
casting. No small feat. --dennis

[rian]

we do not, at least I do not. I only paint for me, although the
perfectionist in me lames me. I have a painting finshed in my head and
then think: I will NEVER get it on canvas like I want to, lets call the
whole thing off.

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