I got behind on this list.  I suppose that's human nature.  But even 11 days
after this post, there were a couple things that I'd like to get on the
record.

1.  I think this discussion is great.  But...  Most of the enthusiasm seemed
to die down after a couple days.  I wonder if it would be more worthwhile to
simply post the 6 winners on day 1 and let everyone go on a commenting
flurry for the next several days.  And yes, if anyone wants to put any other
image up for comment, they should feel free to do so.

2. Sometimes I get the feeling that Jim's comments are able to bring things
out that are very hard for the artist to decisively express with words.  On
the other hand, perhaps other times the artist was simply unable to get
something to look right, so he/she fudged it in some way.  I agree that the
further down the list, "fudging" probably becomes more likely.  To use an
example from the other thread I recently started, in Malevich's "Red Square"
the fact that the square is not "square" was intentional.  However, if I
tried to paint a red square, it may be unintentially "non-square".  Even so,
it makes me wonder if even great artists have made "mistakes", which in
retrospect, seemed like one of their most brilliant ideas.

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Slash

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