Re: Temporal database - no end date
Date: 23 Jan 2007 22:57:42 -0800
Message-ID: <1169621862.115821.283160_at_h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
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:
Marshall Received on Wed Jan 24 2007 - 07:57:42 CET