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Originally Posted by imcarthur
No. You are looking too deep. Art speaks to you or it doesn't.
Ian
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That's quite true - if you really don't know what you're looking at.
How do you look "too deep"? Surely there's no point in looking deeper than what is there physically, light bouncing off it and activating your retinas - but, while that suffices for an illustrative piece, or a purely decorative piece, (where there really
isn't anything else there) there is depth in the work of a Cezanne, Rothko, Picasso or Klimt, et al, that goes far deeper than a matter of a subjective "I like it" or "I don't like it".
If Guernica was not a famous painting, you knew absolutely nothing about it and saw it painted on the side of a broken down building in the Bronx as you drove down the street, can you honestly say that your reaction to it would be what you said it was when you saw it in Spain? Would you have even given it a second glance?
But no one is forcing anyone to care and look. What's amusing is how categorical and up-in-the air some people get when they lash out at what they don't choose to investigate and attempt to understand. Oh well.
