re: #566 WindUpBird

I’m on your side here. I do want art talked about. Like I keep saying, Lawhawk wans’t criticizing the work, he was saying “that guy’s a bad person for daring to paint that.” if someone calls Warhol’s morals and sensibilites into question just for his subject matter, I’m going to find that ridiculous. All opinions are not created equal. I’m not going to give some yokel who points at a Rothko and says “my kid coulda painted that” my respect.

When I say “enemy of art”, what brings those words to my head are people who believe that people should be smeared and attacked and compared to VLAMMS BELANG (!?!?!?!?) because of what they paint.

An artist. being compared to a racist political group. For painting a picture.

Do you see where I could perhaps become exasperated with the tone floating around here?

We do agree to some extent, but then again we don’t. The only enemy of art are those who want to eliminate it. That’s it. Every thing else is opinion, equal or otherwise.

You mean you never read something and you never consider the possible moral and sensibilities of the author? You read in a vacuum? A person can’t look at art and say “the artist is sick.” Of course they can. You may not agree, you may not respect the persons opinion, but if it elicited ANY response, then it has accomplished something. Maybe not what the artist envisioned, but something. That’s good.

You ask… “Do you see where I could perhaps become exasperated with the tone floating around here?” I can that you are, but in my opinion, it’s because you don’t trust to let art be art, and speak for itself. You are doing all the talking for it.