David Lynch

[Jim Farmelant]

I fail to understand why good art cannot have messages.
After all as has already been pointed, people like
Percy Shelley, GB Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Picasso,
Dario Fo, Segei Eisenstein all managed to produce
art that was both political and good.  I do think
that it is probably much harder to produce good
political art, than it is to do good "apolitical" art.
But it is not just political art that is prone to becoming
cliched.

Jim F.

On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 16:07:21 +0000 "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
writes:
> >
> >Or, as my poetry profs like Henry Carlyle like to say, "If you've
> >got a message, send it Western Union".  Red propaganda dressed up 
> in
> >tired cliches is not art.
> >
> >Miles
> >
> 
> Nothing dressed up in tired cliches is (good) art, but that is 
> because it 
> cliched, not because it has a message. Lots of great art has a 
> message:
> 
> Rise like lions after slumber
> In unvanquishable number
> Shake to earth the chains like dew
> That in sleep have fall'n on you
> Ye are many, They are few!
> 
> --Shelly, The Masque of Anarchy
> 
> A simple message, no slants, directly spoken, and as fresh today as 
> it was 
> in 1817. Western union couldn't improve it.
> 
> jks
> 
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