Jim Charter wrote:
> One more anecdote.  I should start by admitting my bias that I dislike 
> the artwork of a German artist named Joseph Beuys.  I know I am probably 
> offending some Germans in the audience but I mean no disrespect to 
> Germany or Germans, I just don't like Beuys' art. 
;-) There are many Germans don't liking Beuys, me included. There's the 
funny story of a cleaning woman, who removed a piece of butter from the 
corner of a room, not recognizing that it was art. She was taken to 
court for that but won the processes IIRC.

Well I never understood art, which only tries to provocate the viewer. 
Maybe Beuys is more than that, I don't know.
For the record: I really like some abstract art such as Miro or 
Hundertwasser. But I only like art, which doesn't need a theoretical 
explanation to give the viewer something. In german there's the saying 

think that's the precondition for good art.

Florian

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