Chris, I don't consider correcting anatomy of the hand drawn has anything to do with taste, it is just mechanics. If we learn to put right part into the car, it does not make our taste superior for auto-parts. If we learn alphabet it does not improve our 'discernment of what is aesthetically excellent or appropriate' about writing. It is a necessary tool to expose our taste. Boris Shoshensky
-- "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't anyone here agree with me? Art/literature teachers are always teaching taste - or as A.A. puts it: "What does the art teacher see? The pupil's mistakes" Even if they deny it - even if it's a taste for certain certain theories instead of certain kinds of images - and even if all they're teaching is a tolerance or relaxation rather then a refinement of discrimination. When Brady's professor tells the fourth year student: "The hands you painted look like flippers" - he teaching a taste for hands that look like hands. (apparently an important issue here on A-L -- as expressed in the recent dismay over the hands and feet of Gr|newald's Christ - and thank God Gr|newald never learned how to do them right!) And if Brady's professor is concerned that a viewer "will not be able to discern a hierarchy by responding to the shapes in the picture." - he's teaching a taste for such a hierarchy - otherwise, why raise the issue ? If Boris is teaching his students to "see all the colors or shapes etc. on the surface of the model" -- he's teaching them that it's less important to "think apple or flower" than to think "form, color, value" Why ? because he's teaching a taste for resemblance to nature.(or as Goodman might say - he teaching a preferred set of codes) When Tom is writing about how to allow a novel to get written -- doesn't he have certain ideas about what would make the resulting text attractive to a publisher? (i.e. conform to the taste of a current market for such things) ? Wouldn't the jacket of his book remind us of such expertise by relating his success as an editor? Preferences for images is primarily about taste -- unless those images are expected to relate information about a specific question that needs to be answered or job that needs to get done -- as in science or technology. And our world privileges science/technology above everything else. Which itself is a judgment of taste -- a taste for the white coat of the lab technician - rather than the elegant weeds of the courtier. Everyone has to be a scientist -- if not of astrophysics - then of socio-economics, or neurology, or mass psychology, or -- gasp -- consumer marketing. I find it all to be either ludicrous or disgusting -- but then I have different tastes. I have a taste for beauty. _____________________________________________________________ Click here for free information on how to become certified as a project management professional. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/REAK6ZqYFirvMPr9tQcuomX9OMgfKo Df0jvvb6BjnAKqBMtS59jHXe/ _____________________________________________________________ Looking for insurance? Click to compare and save big. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2221/fc/REAK6aBebwsjeup03hUyiCkbQrVDxF oA6tiWaATl9xmQ97a5gPnuHC/
