'Oh I clearly get it, Runner. Your saviour stops you from doing kiddie porn and stops you from being violent.' and your moral relativism allows you to perve at young naked girls and call it art. Thats more to the point.

Well no Runner, because I am not making any claims, unlike yourself.
I am highlighting the problem with your claims and the implications about your own character.Your perception of the world, is what your claims are all about. Now we know that without a saviour in his life, runner could be into kiddie porn and could be violent.
Speak for yourself here. I don't share your perspective and
I certainly disagree with your opinion.

Ludwig,
Do you remember that crisps commercial a few years ago where the limp-wristed gallery ding explained the power of the diagonal to some "Art" gawkers ? Until the artist himself came along & put the painting right way up ?
That's what I meant by a blank page. People are overawed yet don't even know what they're looking at.

I confess to being totally unmoved by art, as in pictures, paintings, sculptures and so on. Particularly so with "modern" art - I went to the recent Picasso exhibition in Sydney, and was unable to relate to any of the work there - and this is one of the twentieth century's most revered artists. Colour me philistine.

So this quote from the recently departed Robert Hughes, discussing in 1987 his reaction to surrealism, fascinated me.

"I thought, God, that can't be art! Can it be art? Well maybe it is! You know... and gradually your eye gets hooked by an image and then you pursue it..."

My own eye has yet to be "hooked", and I doubt it ever will. But I have determined to feel more kindly in future to those who can see something that I cannot.

Instead of thinking of them as up-themselves fruitloops, which I did until yesterday.

Instead of thinking of them as up-themselves fruitloops,
Pericles,
They are fruit loops alright but those who pay them are even bigger fruit loops especially those bureaucrats who authorise the taxpayer funding.

Yes Indi, I do just very vaguely remember that… I think.

<< People are overawed yet don't even know what they're looking at >>

Or they act as though they are overawed because they think that the art they are looking at is in vogue, is championed by the upper class, is the thing of the moment for the nouveau artiste elite.

In other words, the art they are looking at doesn’t matter a brass razoo! It’s what other people have said about it, and who those people are that matters!

Talk about fruit loops!

Speaking of tax-payer funding; I wonder which is better, Blue Poles.. or a blank canvas?? ( :>/
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