The American Spectator

p> ART NOUVEAU BR>Re: Christopher Orlet's A Load of Rubbish : p>Christopher Orlet's editorial on junk art was spot-on. As a former art student in a contemporarily oriented school of art, I can confirm that there's an active avoidance of teaching technique even when students are begging, because contemporary artworks are little more than badly communicated statements of poorly conceived philosophy. At the end of his article, Orlet rhetorically asks if contemporary art schools teach that larger art is less likely to end up in the incinerator. You bet they do! At the end of my second semester of sculpture our teacher revealed the long-awaited secret of successful contemporary sculpture: p>”Make it big. If you can't make it big, make it red. If you can't make BR>it red, make a lot of them.” BR>— Sans Talbot p>This is the typical reaction by the artsy crowd; if you don't agree with us you are inferior and need training. They generally stop just short of “resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.” p>What they would recognize, if they weren't so busy seeing who is more stuck on themselves, is that garbage collectors are professionals in their own right. After all, by all standards who is better equipped to say what is garbage and what is not, the person who may see one can a week or the person who sees hundreds of cans a day. p>I doubt that any garbage man would mistake a Rembrandt for garbage. So if they feel some art is garbage, I feel that we all should yield to their superior knowledge. BR>—