Hi Dan, as lovely as she is, and as well informed about art as she is, I must point out that the young girl in question is not my daughter, but the daughter of some friends.
Cartoon I once saw: 2 art critics talking, one of them saying "I know a lot about Art, but I don't know what I like" Don't forget that when Impressionism was new people said the same thing about it that you're saying about the rest of the content of Tate Modern (and presumably the other major modern art museums around the world). You may not like it, but that by itself doesn't mean it's not art. Indeed, it's quite possible to have a work of art that nobody on the planet, living or dead likes, but that wouldn't necessarily disqualify it from being art. The Impressionists almost achieved this, remember, and now they're all over biscuit tins and jigsaws in tourist shops full of teddy bears dressed as policemen and Beefeaters. How long before we see Tracy Emin's work on chocolate boxes? Modern art since the rise of photography, and possibly since before then, has been about breaking definitions of what is or isn't art, so it's almost bound to be unpopular, at least to begin with. Even stuff that looks like poo can still be art. Incidentally, there's some excellent photography in Tate Modern. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, March 23, 2002, 2:56:23 PM, you wrote: > I'm not very artistic myself, but I have visited most of the major art museums > in the word. IMHO, except for one room of impressionists, what is in the Tate > Modern simply is not art. For the most part, Bob's daughter is correct. > Bob Walkden wrote: >> Hi, >> >> everyone's a critic! I like Tate Modern, although if you're really >> cool these days it's de rigeuer to say you prefer Tate Britain. >> >> Last time I went to Tate Modern I was with a friend and her 6-year-old >> daughter. I asked the little girl what she thought of one of the >> exhibits. She replied "It looks like poo". >> >> And it does. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
