Well, see, this statement disturbs me.dubh wrote:I don't know anything about business claptrap but with regard to Modern Poetry, 4:33 and Modern Art I am reminded of Louis Armstrongs famous remark about Jazz,
“Man, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know.”
If I go to a museum and see something like this:
Robert Rauschenberg
White Painting
1951
collection of the artist
I really don't have much to say about it. I don't say it is bad nor do I say it is good. I don't know what he is getting at. I don't find it repellent, nor do I find it interesting although it seems sort of pleasantly calming. So I feel that the most intelligent response would be to ask what it is since I assume that knowing something more might enable me to respond in some way. If knowing more has nothing to do with it, then that is saying to me that I am inherently incapable of any sort of engagement in any postmodern, or whatever the right term is, art (painting, music, literature, whatever). Which is probably quite true but is, nevertheless, somewhat disturbing. I suppose this painting is actually modern, not postmodern but I think my problem can still be discerned.