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Originally Posted by fresnelly
For example, a coworker at lunch the other day said that Picasso's work wasn't Art because he didn't like it. He prefers old masters.
This makes no sense to me. You don't have to like Picasso, but what then are his paintings? A method for stress testing drywall? Good grief.
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A pet peeve of mine is when people are adamant about something "sucking" or being "terrible" or "trash." If I insist that what they mean instead is that " they think it sucks and it's terrible and trash" and they disagree and think it universally so....I tend to no longer value their opinions.
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Oh, I know. I didn't mean commodity literally - I was thinking of it more as an exchange. That 'communication' part of the process.
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In which case you were differentiating between the manifestation of art and its concept?
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