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Re: Swearing?
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 03:47:55 GMT
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For those who aren't familiar with Picasso's Guernica:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820/guernica.htm

-John

John Neal wrote:

> Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> > John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > > > 2. It must provoke emotion in some/most viewers. (it need not be a
> > > > pleasant response)
> > > Why not?
> > 
> > Because art has a much wider scope than that.
> > 
> > Would you say that Picasso's Guernica is not art?
> 
> Well, it's certainly a political statement about a horrible event.  On that
> level no, although one can marvel as to how Picasso's fracturing, cubist style
> creates a mood of chaos and tension.  It is arguable either way.
> 
> -John
> 
> > 
> > 
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(...) Well, it's certainly a political statement about a horrible event. On that level no, although one can marvel as to how Picasso's fracturing, cubist style creates a mood of chaos and tension. It is arguable either way. -John (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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