Mr Asthetik asks: >Could you explain, Mr Miller, why artworks _should_ be immediately intelligible?
Ideas of 'work' and of 'beauty' are indeed theoretical contrivances -- but beautiful things can be made and enjoyably experienced without them. (just as birds can fly without a knowledge of aerodynamics). My own ideas of 'work' and 'beauty' are rather vaporous as theories go, since nothing is theoretically excluded. BTW -- although I do claim that "no other evidence is required to judge a painting other than what is presented by the painting itself" --- I am not asserting that "everyone should everyone be able to immediately understand a work, be able to immediately feel its beauty" I would like to substitute the word ' eventually' for 'immediately' in the above sentence -- although our lives are too short to understand and feel the beauty of more than a limited range of things. William and I disagree concerning what that project requires -- but I'll have to respond to that on another day. ____________________________________________________________ Click to find deals on color printers and inks. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxQXxywG1LZG9NPk6rSbVwSFm wdEIaS97lXGqsQnYMjuo36IdA0OdC/
