[imcarthur]

Please, will someone enlighten me?

Where does it say that one must like/understand/appreciated ALL art? In what rule book? In what manual? In what text? In what scroll from the ancients?

Isn’t it just a smidgen possible that one can appreciate certain styles or genres or ages of art & yet be unappreciative about others?

And if asked for an opinion, should I lie & mumble something about the artist’s feelings or his wretched life? Or should I express my actual feelings & give you my honest point of view?

And to attach the necessity of education to the subject of art appreciation is just so pompous & so typical of an academic’s dismissal of lesser mortals. I didn’t need education to tell me that I liked Renoir (as an example). After my 1st exposure, I wanted to learn more about Impressionism & I did. The deeper education gave me a better insight into the artists' time, lives, motivations etc but – a big but here - I didn’t need education to tell me that I liked Renoir.

Ian