It's ridiculous to insist that because taste in art is subjective it is also unique to such an extent that others don't share it. People of a given locale, time, culture tend to have much more in common than they themselves might think. Advertisers and product managers devote much time and money discovering how those individual subjective tastes really represent a large group of people. Artists also think about the tastes of their preferred audiences and conform their work accordingly --- more than they may admit. WC
----- Original Message ---- From: ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 19, 2012 1:47:43 PM Subject: Re: "Attention is crucial, focusing only on key shapes and ignoring superfluous details." In art, the essence of food is as varied as human's tastes. Same goes for forms / colors sound etc. armandobaeza --- On Thu, 7/19/12, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: From: joseph berg <[email protected]> Subject: Re: "Attention is crucial, focusing only on key shapes and ignoring superfluous details." To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 19, 2012, 2:16 AM On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jul 18, 2012, at 5:27 PM, joseph berg wrote: > > > But for art to be appreciated with any seriousness, doesn't there have to > > be a consensus of opinion as to what is good and what is not? > > Does that work for food--and gustatory delight is a literal matter of > taste? > Should it matter to an eater whether there is a consensus that mushrooms > taste > good in order for the eater to appreciate the taste of mushrooms? > > If there is no consensus that the mushrooms taste good, then isn't the restaurant serving them risking going out of business?
