In a message dated 5/29/2000 7:26:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:
>
> I don't think but for Pollock, Cage, and Cunningham, we'd be stuck in the
> last century or with strictly European culture. I don't see Pollock or
Cage
> as liberating in an artistic sense. Anybody can proclaim anything goes.
> This does not make him or her an artist. Granted, all of these people knew
> how to create art -- I mean in the tradition sense -- but look what came
> after. I.e., too many so called artists today have thrown out the baby
with
> bathwater -- or even kept the bathwater after throwing out the baby. In
> painting, I see too many lauded works which are really flat -- having no
> depth beyond merely being shocking for the moment and the latest fad.
>
You are making claims about modern art, who specifically did change the
climate if not those men? And which artists are you referring to --
accusations of trendiness:
that are flat, no depth, and only the latest fad? Cindy Sherman? Robert
Williams? Guerrila Girls? Rosenquist? Judy Chicago? Koontz? Ruscha?
Lichtenstien (heehee) Rauschenberg? Hockney? Oldenburg?
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