On Jul 14, 2012, at 2:11 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Your dad was right on.
> ----- Original Message -----
> When I was growing up my dad, who taught at the Leeds School of Art
> at the time, regaled us with a relentless critique of abstract
> expressionism (he was a follower of Fluxus, and surrealism) for its
> moronic worship of spontaneity, 'like cavemen, still amazed that the
> paint drips off the ends of their fingers'.
Didn't he know that some of the greatest visual art ever created was the work of cave[wo]men?
Shane Mage
"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to"