From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 13:28:42 GMT
> not very art savvy, are we Platt? John Cage was the guy who said there is
> music everywhere, that we can look for it in nature rather than ourselves.
> he said, in regards to his piece 4'33", "i have nothing to say, and i am
> saying it".
Being "art savvy" presumes Cage is an artist which is debatable..
> some people, like myself, consider him a
> genius in the same caliber as Bach.
Who besides yourself considers Cage equal to Bach?
> and as for the piece of shit on the
> wall, have you ever heard of Dechampes?
You mean Marcel Duchamp, the guy who painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa
and called it art? No one can say of a painting by Vermeer or Homer that a
child could do it.
Platt
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