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Evil is as Evil does...
Jim:
Ok, so maybe I was a little over the top with my definition of "evil", but it is still a shame that realism has been given such a short shrift to other forms of "art" over the past 100 or so years. While I appreciate Impressionism, and even some forms of modernism, I just cannot get on the bandwagon for a museum paying $35,000 for an artist's feces, or an exhibit of an empty room where the lights go on and off, or someone who cuts themselves and then lets people watch - that, IMO, is not art. When the artist overtakes the art, then there is a problem. Artists have become akin to morning shock radio hosts - the more outrageous they are, the more popular they become. Why? Because the public no longer knows better. Why? Because they have been fed almost 100 years of "art without skill" - again, my opinion.
We have lost their attention and they have lost their knowledge of art.
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