Re: Temporal database - no end date

On Jan 23, 7:03 pm, "JOG" <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sounds like this would be a good argument to explain the existence
> of most modern art too.

Oh, pooh. Modern art has gotten a bad rep with the general public from various poseurs like Duchamp and his "fountain" sculpture, Rauschenberg and his "white paintings", and John Cage for his ridiculous piece of not-music "4:33", which he actually had the temerity to sue someone over for, get this, copying.

But that doesn't mean that everything non-representationalist is a big fake. Take Rothko, for example. It's easy enough to dismiss his work as fakery; after all, it's most just a big two-tone canvas. But standing quietly in front of one of his enormous canvasses is really quite an experience. It is, for lack of a better word, art.

For more on modern art:

http://sfmoma.com/

Marshall Received on Wed Jan 24 2007 - 00:57:42 CST