--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The operative phrase, of course, being "more often than not." Obviously there are exceptions. Moreover, liking "Velvet Elvis" paintings doesn't necessarily preclude being wowed by a Rambrandt. Individual tastes may take odd detours, but there's a substantial body of work about which there is an enduring consensus (although it sometimes takes quite a while to form). "I'm sure that's why they buy so many "Velvet Elvis" paintings. The critics are ga-ga about them." Wonderful point and good illustration. This kind of art often refereed to as kitsch, or, in some cases folk art, has value. ItÕs in fact drawn much critical attention over the past several decades. There is a danger in judging all things considered art from a single model. Most of us subjected to a western style education are raised under the visual framework of High Renaissance. As such we tend to unconsciously judge things based predominately on faithful mimesis and unchallenged perceptual habits. Much recent art, beginning say in the late 1950Õs, deals primarily with the construction of meaning. For example, the point raised here a few days back suggesting that the viewer "becomes what they experience" may or may not be true. What youÕd consider critical from a contemporary art perspective is highlighting the interpretive forces involved in determining what is that youÕve become as a result of this experience. -------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
