On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:13 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> If capitalism gave us the great aura of respect for the well-made and the > innovative, it also soon gave us the opposite: the poorly made and the > redundant...The latest art schools fashion in the continual > 'return-to-painting' department > is a preference for seemingly unskilled and slap-dash figurative imagery > and > method. The more awkward and amateurish a painting looks, the better it > is. > - The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from *adultery* to *zoology*. H.L. *Mencken*.
