From: Salonen@aol.com
Subject: Art and Cartoons (NC)
Date: 2/11/2002 1:52:44 PM
To: bhamill@prolificom.net
seance@lists.no-fi.com


In a message dated 2/11/02 6:23:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
bhamill@prolificom.net writes:


> Give me Paul
> Klee, Frantisek Kupka or Klimt or any of 100 others. You've got to allow
> people to feel passionate about this stuff without being hurt yourself.
> They tried to teach me to appreciate an all-black painting last
> semester. No way. The question was "How much more black could it be? And
> the answer is none..none-more black."
> 
> 
 Paul Klee? PAUL KLEE? Are you nuts? - Hee, I'm just messin' with ya. My 
classes never like Paul Klee though. I just have one question though: How DO 
you teach someone to appreciate an all black painting? Perhaps my teaching 
skills could be enhanced if I knew. When I showed Kazimir Malevich's "White 
on White" I basically let them all laugh, and I laughed too. Then when I told 
them how many millions of dollars his works can go for, we stopped laughing. 

Hey - speaking of cartoons - has anyone mentioned that incredibly 
sophisticated and technically impressive show "Land of the Lost"? Man I 
really enjoyed that one. Those sets - the realism! The sleastacks (sp?)!!!!! 
Nothing like a big bowl of sugary cereal and Saturday morning cartoons. I 
miss being 7 years old. : /

Denise