Ron Mueck

[Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>]

I believe great art is determined by its ability to speak to or move
the masses not its ability to say the same thing to each and every
person who views it.
I've never studied art, but surely people have looked at this: do
"naive" people from very different cultures viewing the same art
object agree that it is great art? In other words, will the
uninformed bush man marvel at the Mona Lisa rather than some painting
that a western art critic doesn't value? Surely this question has
been looked at in Art School. (I would also like to pose the
culturally reversed situation, whether some uninitiated westerner
would necessarily appreciate the same art valued by the bush man? But
being culturally ignorant of people from the bush I find this
scenario harder to set up.)

On another topic. Did I hear that Duchamp's urinal got broken?
Apparently, it is said, he would have approved of this, or at least,
not minded. Why is that?

The thing that really bugs me about art in the wee hours of the
morning is that it is so damn anthropocentric.

n