In a message dated 11/14/08 8:17:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> What do we make of this when we see the visual arts purposely "deskilled"
> today?  When we routinely dismiss skill as being the least of the aesthetic
> concerns what are we doing?
>
Cheerskep, the dreaded Pronouncer of Sentences, pronounces again: I think
William's insight here is dead right: I can think of few if any WOA that don't
depend on the creator's having acquired "skill". Many people who do acquire
skill don't have other gifts required to produce worthy work, but I take
William
as saying skill is not sufficient, but it is necessary.



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