[lepton]

Well, my daughter made fun of it all in her essay. I can't wait to see her grade.

Well, I know that the issue of art is a touchy one. I had a drawing instructor that would shake visibly in my prescence after he overheard me suggest that I liked Piccasso's early paintings much better than his later stuff...he didn't even hear me describe the drawing we were looking at as worthy of a 5-year-old.

[nicollo]

The problem with art criticism is that historians have tried to turn it into a science. I once watched a group of students stare at and study the stupidist painting in the world for three hours at a museum. Their comments were fun at first. The ridiculous arrived shortly, and stayed the rest of the visit.

God love you for calling it right on Picasso. Great artist early in his career... later on, a great con-artist. You tell me which was the more refined in him.

Somebody posted here a lecture at the Met in NYC on the inanity of modern art. It was a shocker for the establishment, as the speaker was famous in their business. The Emporer, it turns out, had no clothes. I'll see if I can't find a link.