From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 15:15:56 GMT
Hi Mark, All:
Mark wrote:
> Arte is excellence
> no matter what the field: An excellent physique, an excellence in social
> art, excellence in intellectual pursuits. It is the excellence - Quality,
> as you rightly point out, which is THE most important thing to understand.
Right on. What's more, there are degrees of excellence. Some artists are
better than others. For example, in his book "Human Accomplishment,"
Charles Murray ranks significant figures of excellence in Western Art (in
descending order) as follows, based on a statistical analysis of the
opinions of art experts:
Michelangelo
Picasso
Leonardo
Titian
Durer
Rembrandt
Giotto
Cezanne
Rubens
Caravaggio
Velazquez
Donatello
Van Eyck
Goya
Monet
Masaccio
Van Gogh
Gauguin
However you may rank these artists and others (I personally would lower
Picasso, raise Velazquez and add Vermeer), you cannot in good conscience
question the propriety of making such lists and finding agreement among
experts as to the excellence in accomplishment by certain individuals over
the rest of us.
That I as an artist strive to equal the genius of a Vermeer is never in
doubt; that I will ever do so is doubtful in the extreme.
Regards,
Platt
M
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