HAVING recently accepted a place on the degree Visual Arts course at Bolton Institute, I read your recent article concerning modern art with great interest. I concur with Bob Burden. Art is, to coin a phrase, "not as we know it"!
All Art, at time of conception, is modern and, as such, must have evolved from something, therefore being controversial by its change in style or materials used etc. This, however, does not mean I have to like it -- "I know what I like and I like what I know!"
I adore chocolate digestives. Does that mean I should like rich tea? Throughout history, items have been exalted as Art, but who is really to say what is good or bad? Oh to unearth a prehistoric oil on canvas painting than view inept pictures of animals "drawn" using mud and plants.
And why has a man who painted flat buildings, shadowless "childless" people, using ballpoint pens and crayons, still got a cult following in a small suburb of Salford?
Mark "Oz" Ashworth
Eldon Street
Tonge Moor, Bolton
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