Well I shall have to bow to your superior knowledge on anything art related
But that does raise the question somewhat of art appreciation and why it is often considered pretentious. If you need to have knowledge of all these historical master painters in order to get an unmade bed as art then you can surely see why very few people will understand it.

I'm not going to try and argue that it isn't art, I know nothing about art in general, it really has no interest for me, in fact I was going to use a music analogy, but it actually shows my original premise to be utter rubbish.

I was going to say that you don't need a great understanding of the rules of music and classical composition to understand a great pop song, but that's the wrong comparison isn't it. You don't need a great deal of knowledge to appreciate a nice picture of trees and hills and stuff. But you would need a good knowledge of music to appreciate why some free form jazz is so good musically, even though most people would dismiss it as just random noise. Which is the equivalent of people dismissing Emin as a load of pretensious rubbish.

Hmmmm. Really must stop arguing in my own head.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 6 May 2008, 14:51, Reply)