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Must great art be beautiful?
Can something ugly be great art?
Goya's black paintings, a scream in a symphony, a novel built to bore you. Some of the most admired work is hard to enjoy.
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- Does knowing change it?A piece of writing moves you to tears. Then you learn a machine wrote every word. Does that change it?
- Is your taste yours?What would you still love if no one could ever see you loving it?
- The aura on your screenYou know the Sistine Chapel from images. If you went, what exactly would you be going for?
- The blade and the canvasIf you were angry enough at what it stood for, could you ever be right to put a blade through a painting?
- The maker inside the madeCan you separate the art from the artist?
