Posted on 03/24/2006 6:35:10 PM PST by aculeus
Aggghhhhhhhhhhh, it's the volcano from Dianetics!
Did someone page the master of style and taste?
We need to teach our children art, literature and music appreciation, more than creationism, or "ethnic studies", whatever that is, or we'll continue to have starving artists, and philistine millionaires with definite opinions of Andy Warhol, and what's art, what's junk, paying thousands of dollars for bad flea market kitsch!
Unfortunately, the folks who become millionaires are usually so single-minded about whatever they are doing that after making their pile they suddenly wake up and realize that they didn't pay any attention to art, literature, or music while they were coming along.
At that point, if they're canny, they hire a gentlewoman or gentleman in distressed circumstances to bring them up to speed. If they're not, they pay thousands of dollars for bad flea market kitsch and learn art appreciation the hard way . . . when their art depreciates . . .
I have a son who's that way. He's so single-minded about what he likes (tinkering with machines and electronics) that any information about art and music goes in one ear and out the other. We keep on providing the information in the hopes that some of it will stick, subconsciously or something.
dighton was linking to post 119 on this thread.
I hear you. Things are different in more traditional Western societies. This is perhaps due to their well established class structure. Compare, off the top of my head, Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson (collectors of flea market kitsch), to somebody like Pete Townsend or Mick Jagger, or Sophia Loren, who all, in one word, aspired, when it came to cultural values. Elvis only aspired to unlimited quantities of MacBurgers and doughnuts. I see this as a tragedy of American success.
"Sunday on the pot with George"
I know, I know. I was having computer problems yesterday. I couldn't see anybody's photos at all.
I finally got to see post 119 for myself, just now. LOL
I think it may have more to do with the chaotic upbringing that both Elvis and Michael Jackson had, rather than class per se. If they had been brought up properly (not necessarily upper middle class prep school family - there are plenty of working class people with good taste, just not much money) they would have had better artistic values.
Offset lithography = photographic reproduction. In other words, you bought a signed poster.
A millionaire might not care, but to most people, Thomas Kinkade's signature is not worth $1200.
So I should have said that to most people, his signature is not worth $1000.
Oh, it's a Christmas wreath on the light pole. Never mind.
discovered by you, appropriately enough
Kinkade left out the gondolas, then.
Also, you can never tell where the heck the light is coming from. Random sides of trees, houses, chimneys, creeks, and hillsides are lit from north, south, east and west. It's creepy. Like you're witnessing the glow of a nuclear blast in the stratosphere.
Good to see your pic links are working for you again, hellina. :-)
I don't think he'd appreciate the print I used to have in my kitchen...(they were the only ants in my kitchen!)
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