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3 posted on 05/01/2006 12:08:14 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)

To: Gordongekko909

what'd he do to you?

6 posted on 05/01/2006 12:11:15 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com/)

To: Gordongekko909

I hate art.

Not all art is bad.

Try this site. You might like some of the art there.

25 posted on 05/01/2006 1:04:54 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")

To: Gordongekko909

So do I anymore.

The last generation of Western artists to uniformly produce beautiful things were the Impressionists and their contemporaries.

Then one gets a dwindling tail of beauty: some of the symbolists and decadents, art nouveau, art deco.

It's sad: it didn't have to happen.

The last time I went to an art museum I got depressed, the moreso because
two Japanese pieces dates 2000 and 2004 were just as beautiful as the pieces next to them from the Edo period.

And 'serious' music is just a rotten: at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert, they sandwiched a flute concerto by Rouse (a living American composer, I think from Baltimore) between Beethoven's 8th and 7th.

The second movement had an absolutely gorgeous passage, magesterial, moving, building up to a crecendo, we saw the percussionists getting ready for the wonderful crash and boom which should have joined it at its height, and what did the blockheaded composer do? He threw it away, stuck in two measures of cacophonous noise before the percussion crash.

37 posted on 05/01/2006 2:20:49 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

To: Gordongekko909

Not me. I love art.

I just hate what some people PRETEND is art.

48 posted on 05/01/2006 3:41:36 PM PDT by cincinnati65 (Lucky participant in 189 different Nigerian business deals......still waiting on payment.)

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