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In Reply to: Re: You just burned Rembrandt's "The Night Watch": posted by Dmitry on October 20, 2000 at 14:21:30:

***I don't understand how somebody would argue with most of what you said in your post. Every substantial work of art has something "behind the canvas", otherwise we might as well be watching goldfish in a tank. They say it's therapeutic.
The big question here is just what determines what is "substantial". It is hard to argue that the fashion is often more important than the artistic merit, and that some works that one finds in many modern art galleries SHOULD be questioned.
No matter what the history behind the work, I tend to draw the line someplace. We got in a fight with a nice lady in a museum in Dusseldorf once, she was trying to explain to us that the single yellow dot on a 6' x 10' canvas was indeed not just a yellow dot, but a conglomeration, a compressed view of the artist's whole biography, his whole life.
Just recently petew dropped a great quote by Kubrick in the film forum. That has been my sentiments for many ears too.
Information and feelings are NOT mutually exclusive, but close to that.

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