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To: FreedomCalls
"Prototypes are being launched for the public to test, but the real audience is a tiny in-crowd, drunk on its own pathetic audacity .... Most spectators are not totally new to the world of the arts and can make up their own minds. Every evening they come out revolted.

That describes most of the crap that goes by the name of modern "art."

"You think you've reached the last point in mediocrity, pretentiousness and confusion. But no. There is always something worse," said Le Figaro's drama critic.

It just never ends, just like the stupidity of left-wingers has no end.

Belgian visual artist Jan Lauwers...announces that "Needlapb 10" is "not a show or a work of creativity but a mental space, an experiment."

So called "artists" have been using a pretentious imitation of the sciences for about 80 years now. Notice the scientific sounding name of the work with the number in it. Even the work itself is called an experiment, as if in a lab discovering new laws of art.

"We have seen a lot of feeble and problematic shows in this Avignon festival. But this is sheer imposture, bloated by its own importance and of unfathomable tedium," Le Monde said.

But don't look for anything to change in the near future. The world of art will continue to grind out the same demonstrations of lack of talent.

As Henry James said over 100 years ago: "Nothing is more contemptible than a mediocre artist."

37 posted on 07/23/2005 8:16:24 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776
As Henry James said over 100 years ago: "Nothing is more contemptible than a mediocre artist."

Correction: that quote is by Henry's brother William.

38 posted on 07/23/2005 8:18:59 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: stripes1776
The world of art will continue to grind out the same demonstrations of lack of talent.

As long as government money is used to fund them that is. Let them compete in a market where true talent will rise to the surface and the current hacks will fade away.

40 posted on 07/23/2005 9:07:15 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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