Soulless?

[Pwwhitley@zzzzzzz]

Similar discussions seem to arise no matter what the art...or
craft...involved.  Purists vs. techies.  Surely intent is the  key.

Discussion, with or without the blue haze, is good...but I understand
George's desire that we surround the same table.  Just as in art, intent is  the key
in discussion and intent is more accurately conveyed eye to eye.

Did anyone catch Andy Rooney Sunday evening?  He expressed his usual
curmudgeonly opinion, this time on abstract sculpture.  I might  have agreed with him
on many of the examples shown, but all of abstract art was  by implication
indicted.  He used Picasso as an example of the only  exception...someone who
has previously down naturalistic work can now do  abstract.  Or was it just that
someone who has become famous, or who has  sold work for huge prices can be
allowed to do abstract work?

I seldom worry about Andy Rooney's opinions, but I think it has become far
too easy to express a personal bias or a self-serving slant in an authoritative
 fashion in public media and have it accepted as fact.

Philip Whitley