I am one of those people who has little taste for art. I do understand and admire the beauty of music, sculpture, literature but, come on, paintings!! No way. For me they are just there. With no functionality. I do dig comics. And totally see sense in it. But paintings.They just hang there on the wall, all day, all alone when no one is around, and stare blankly when people are around. Say nothing, do nothing and completely fail to grab my attention. So much said, that is not exactly my point. The point I am trying to make, is an expansion of of an interesting discussion in a movie I was recently watching ( And whose name I will not disclose. Well, Its okay to watch a chic-flick when you have absolutely nothing to do).
The question is, who decides what is art? A piece of work may be everything or nothing depending on whether or not "someone" decides it is awesome or a piece of crap. In most cases that "someone" is a big-guy in the field. Quite possibly, eccentric on the outside. Going with the flow, many often second that and lo and behold.. your work is art. But seriously, I am positive, to most junta, if sufficiently ignorant (not un-intelligent or un-observant) , a Van Gogh juxtaposed among others will easily pass unnoticed. Perhaps it is required to "be there, do that" to relish it. Or is it, that I just nod my head just because the world says "yes".
Thus in a nutshell my point is about letting your opinion be heard. How many of us have ever experienced situations as this where you went out with a bunch of people for a movie or dinner. And you just disagreed to disagree that the movie was somnolent or the food was pathetic. May be you just chose to be safely neutral rather than stand out in the crowd as a complete douche. I must agree, it is hard. Of course,there is always a risk of you completely being wrong. These are just trivial examples, but I leave it as an exercise for the reader to think in retrospect to chart your actions for the imminent. Who knows, may be your intractability stems a revolution.
1 comments:
Bullsh*t, when have I ever seen you disagree with everyone else.. when have you taken sides with the few who would have a diff take on a movie or an incident??
and about the art thing, just because you don't get it , doesn't mean everyone else is putting on a show to appear sophisticated.. Face it, you are a commoner, just like the rest of us. I want to hear you say it.. say it "I am a commoner" say it!!
Somerset township sucks!! New Brunswick yeahh!!!
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