Re: [DISC] Is Language Creation Art?

(I hope this doesn't come out all screwy...)

In a message dated 3/16/2002 7:42:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:


> Fortunately, really great artists have had rather more than this narrow
> view.  I forget the name of that painting Picasso did depicting the
> suffering of the people of Gerona after Franco had the luftwaffe bomb the
> town, but it was hardly what I'd call an aesthetic painting.  Yet I
> consider it great art - not just craft - making a statement that needed to
> be be made.
>
Guernica--I saw it when I was in Spain.  :)  Man, by the age of five, Picasso
was a better realist than I'll ever be.  Drew little "sketches" of his
parents in pencil--perfect!  I wrote about this just recently for a class
which is why it comes to mind.

<<
What a boring old age lies before you.>>

Oh, what a mess I started!  And all because I don't like the words "hobby"
and "craft"--one for the semantic baggage it carries with it, the other
purely because of the sound of it: [k_hr&ft].  Ugliest word in English.

<<If one has an interest in one's spare time it's
mere fidding around!  Only artists do serious things.>>

To quote your words, "What arrant snobbishness".  ~;p  Hee, hee...

Anyway, with the  message I originally wrote, I was talking about anything at
all, other than the words "hobby" and <shudder> "craft" (I hate even typing
that word, because it makes me hear it in my head).   But anyway, to hereby
put an end to this, everything I've ever said was wrong: Long live <insert
views or values>!

-David  :)