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Re: [DISC] Is Language Creation Art?

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Sunday, March 17, 2002, 10:12
(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 :)