Read the reviews of manet's work from the 19th century - it is mando's criticism - the only difference is Mando will acknowledge manet as a important artist - and at that time he was thought to be inept High brow, middle brow and low brow have nothing to do with class - Donald trump for instance is decidely low brow - as for your question we generate opinions using highly complex networks and systems - but in the end most opinions like this one is only a variant on an existent theme - as is Mando's sense of design which is fairly conventional - if a bit old fashion
On 11/16/09 12:49 PM, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: Saul, I challenge you to find a single opinion from the last hundred years, in print or on the internet, that asserts that "Bar at the Folies Bergere" is a poorly composed painting by whatever standards the writer advocates. (and if, by chance, you actually do find such a person, that person will be unanimously recognized by us as an eccentric crank) Do you even, in your wildest dreams, imagine that a staunchly middle-brow publication like "American Artist" or "Western Art would publish an article condemning Manet for poor composition? Perhaps a self-acknowledged high-brow, like yourself, would attribute that opinion to those of a lower class -- but that's not the same as anyone actually having it. The important question is not "where do opinions come from?" -- but "where does your opinion come from?" It's rather clear that Mando's opinion about Manet's composition comes from his own sense of design, that he's been practicing, for better or worse, for 60 years. Where does your's come from? ..................... >It was fairly conventional he was comparing traditional standards of a good composition (balanced) with what Manet was doing - in the sense that for Mando what manet did in the 1870s was out of the loop", quite outside those "dominant rules of thought that are necessary to produce a relatively stable framework which will enable "good" art and mando wanted to get it back to a norms of finish and composition that still dominates most middle brow views of good art ____________________________________________________________ Senior Assisted Living Put your loved ones in good hands with quality senior assisted living. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=fMfMOX6peesV76FVxeJy5QAAJz6c l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASUQAAAAA= --
