re: #608 WindUpBird

We are sort of talking across each others bow, both agreeing and not agreeing and sometimes missing a point.

Everything you said makes sense, and since you appear to be deeply knowledgeable about painted art, every one of your points are correct, according to your informed knowledge of art.

But, that’s what I like about art, it’s for everyone. A totally uninformed person can look at art and come away with a positive opinion, a n understanding of some sort, and maybe even insight. And that same uninformed person can look at a piece of art and say “dog shit.” And that’s fine with me. Because I see art as something that is available to all, informed, uninformed, it doesn’t matter.

So, for you, informed, you know DIFFERENT than the other person, but not better. Because art is what it elicits inside of a person, not what you deem as the correct, proper and informed response.

You are an art elitist. I can’t stand art elitist. It’s people like you that kept me afraid to visit the numerous museums in Paris, even though I had been to Paris a dozen times. It was people like you who made it impossible to enjoy art for arts sake. When I finally decided to respect art and let it speak for itself, let it speak to me, and turned out the elitists like you, then I had a revelation… I understood what art is.

I hope you have that epiphany someday.