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Old 28-10-2010, 08:46   #127
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Re: The value of public funded art

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates View Post
I see art in many things - what is art?

To me, art is beauty and beauty is art. A piece of machinery that has been made by man, A beautiful woman, a painting or sculpture by one of the great old masters and some of the newer ones, a bir'd wing, a flower, even an aeroplane - but a dirty unmade bed, a sheep in formaldehyde, a pile of rubble, absolutely no way and no way should things like that, or the "training" to produce such garbage, be funded either by our taxes or Camelot.
Like many others, I thought that Camelot was going to subscribe to worthwhile causes - once again i got it wrong:-(((
Poetry, sheer Poetry, did you get a grant for it or are you just going to donate it to the nation without any thought of reward?
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