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Re: modern art
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From: sim
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 26 March 2004

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The beauty of art is that it is an endless question and answer session. I think your anxious and reacting to that anxiety by saying "its all rubbish anybody could do it". Clearly people do care, as you must to write what you wrote. There is still good and bad art but commerical interests often obscure that fact just as they do in other areas of life. I'm shocked to read your comments on Picasso Guernica. I disagree and find it very powerful. Look at the picture again. Human forms mutate into animal (genetic, biological), ghosts appear in the room, objects fragment and slash into each other. The light appears like the flash of some nuclear explosion. All the anxiety of technology, progress, war and destruction are made tangible and given imaginative form. An amazing painting. Maybe the one true masterpiece of the Twentieth Century.

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