[net.poems] Punch provides apt comment on what is known as Art these days...

reid@dciem.UUCP (David Brake c/o Reid Ellis) (01/14/86)

Because this painting on the wall
Is comprehensible to all
The critics jeer. Remove it hence
And bring me something void of sense.

And I'll bet this is not just applicable to painting.
The same seems appropriate to sculpture and literature.
Ah well.
David Russell Brake I, Esq.
"Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong" -O. Wilde
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abgamble@water.UUCP (abgamble) (01/14/86)

> 
> Because this painting on the wall
> Is comprehensible to all
> The critics jeer. Remove it hence
> And bring me something void of sense.
> 
> And I'll bet this is not just applicable to painting.
> The same seems appropriate to sculpture and literature.

And Music. Ever hear of John Cage

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> Reid Ellis	"It *is* Space Invaders!!"
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jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (01/16/86)

In article <1762@dciem.UUCP> reid@dciem.UUCP (David Brake c/o Reid Ellis) writes:
>
>Because this painting on the wall
>Is comprehensible to all
>The critics jeer. Remove it hence
>And bring me something void of sense.
>
>And I'll bet this is not just applicable to painting.
>The same seems appropriate to sculpture and literature.
>Ah well.

It is also the battle cry of the ignorant and unimaginitive. And which it
happens to be (apt or stupid) is often not at all obvious. Especially
to the unimaginitive.

Ah well.
					Jeff Winslow

"They like junk. Give 'em junk!"

reid@dciem.UUCP (David Brake c/o Reid Ellis) (01/19/86)

Mr. Winslow,

     Unfortunately, YOUR reply to my message is also used
by those "artists" who seem to me patently misguided or
deliberately exploitive of the artistic community. "They
just don't understand my great master-work" is not a terribly
convincing reply, I'm afraid. To give just one example, as
an experiment, several art assessors were given a painting
painted by a chimpanzee, and were asked to price it. The
consensus was about $10,000.
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