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Dear Pizo, 

I keep having to put us with people "who know all about art"
and they continue to sey things like:

    Shape and color can be interesting and pleasing 
    to look at and Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm", an 
    energenic work, would no doubt enhance someone's 
    living room. I think it does in some ways denigrate 
    his art to have cigarette butts embedded in them...

and then of course, they go off on Titian and all of those
Renaissance "GREATS" - would you *please* take time to give
us some "amunition"?

  -- still a Rothko and Judy Chicago Fan in Waco.

Dear wakey-flakey,

How dare you even mention Titian on the SAME page as that
poseure POLL-ACK!!!!  Well, you know me.  Ok, i'll do it.
Even though i have 27_326 other things that i'm working on 
at this moment....

Tolstoy - one measure of art

When wakey-flakey sent me the email, she enclosed a bit more
which is telling as well:

     [the] article is really about the definition of 
     art. I, an art lover but by no means an art 
     neophyte, define art by the standard of Leo, 
     Count Tolstoy: 

       "Art is a human activity having for its 
        purpose the transmission to others of 
        the highest and best feelings to which 
        men have risen". 

     By this meaning Cage's 4'33" of musical silence 
     and Pollack's drip paintings are not art simply 
     because they do not inspire and require little 
     effort or talent to execute.

Oig!  Where do i begin. Ok, kiddo's strap on your time-space
conveyor belts!!!!

Now all together now:  oingo boingo oingo boingo oingo boingo oingo ...
                       there's no place like home there's no place...

First off this term "neophyte" and such is just plain rubbish.
Unless you happen to be Marlyn Stokstad, then i'd say we're ALL
neophytes - and she'd probably even include herself in the group.

First off, let's just get one thing straigth:

    Sometimes you feel like a nut,
    and sometimes you're the squirrel.

That is as much as i like V8 vegatable juice, there are times
when i wish i had a cup of vanilla ice cream.

Ok, that wasn't so hard was it?

Well, now let's look at Leo T's idea - he meant the 
HIGHEST and BEST feelings. Thus, of course we have to
rip Picasso's Guernika off the wall since it's clearly
(and it ONLY took him one month to paint! -- it came in
a paint-by-numbers factory thru a space-time fabrik rip
from Andy Warhol's "Art Factory" in 1968 - the day after
someone important was shot - i think it was either Dr. 
Martin Luther King or Bobby Kennedy. 

So, out goes the "wall" of the viet nam vetrans and of course,
we've JUST gotta get rid of all of those icky feminist works
by the likes of Judy Chicago and starting with the thoroughly
repulsive BLOB by Linda Benglis. 

See, Virginia that's a part of art - to express not only the
HIGHEST parts of human expression (can YOU say renaissance?)
but the low points - lest we ever forget and try to imprision
people in concentration camps - oh, silly me i was thinking 
for some stupid reason of Guantanimo Bay.

And all of that human rights non-sense can be disgarded as well
after all INNOCENT people have nothing to fear from the government,
the authorities, or anyone with enough power to buy a seat on
the local town council. 

Sorry, the huns are at the door, maybe i can buy them off
with a few sweets and a little magic??


...(sound off stage of scraggy old poet being hacked to death)....




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