Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Please forgive me selectively quoting your post. You seem to be implying that to be art it has to have a "positive" spin on it. I cannot believe that you actually think this. You would thus exclude Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" and I could go on for many many hours listing art works from all time periods that do not elevate the human spirit as you seem to say they should. John Collier > From: Nick Poole <nick.botton@camphill.org.uk> > > So I look for something indefinable, yet recognisable, in art that > elevates the human spirit; that opens new vistas of hope and > idealism, that suggests greater dimensions for human faculties than > those we possess today. To dwell on the sordid and depressing can > certainly be educational or prick an uneasy conscience, but > ultimately art is about more than that - it is a testament to the > human spirit which is capable of the very highest aspirations.