[dd74]

Argo - you have to understand the subjectivity of art as a whole - from painting, to photography to poetry - it is a matter of taste and what is pleasing visually and in other ways. Whether Matisse or a person throwing paint into the exhaust trail of a jet engine to spray designs onto a forty-foot canvas, everyone has an opinion of whether this is or isn't art, but no one should engage in an obvious confrontation about it.

Confronting an artist as to his or her work is, hopeless and useless, especially after that artist's style has been established. The most you can gain, if that confrontation is expressed in a nicely-critical manner, is that the artist will listen to you. But as you have done here, I would expect Alan to merely pass off your opinion as one of bitterness and jealousy.

I hope, however, that isn't the case, though it seems as if it is.