I WAS WILLING TO LEARN FROM YOU

Copyright ©2007 Ashi Shadow 7/15/07 on Katie
She said Scenery was dead (as a painting art form).
She agreed with the so called "thinkers" that said with newer forms of media, paintings like that were "dead" and "boring" or something.
I said that scenery's not dead, and asked her something like "Then why do you go and look at the paintings from the 1700s of the scenery?" or something like that. And she said that those were good, and I said how could they be good then and not now? And she said they were painted then and not now. And I said that was ridiculous, and said that you could argue that it might reflect upon the painter in some way, but not the art itself -- whether it was a good painting had nothing to do with when it was painted. And she said "You would say something like that." and said it with an attitude dripping daggers. Well, I gave her the chance to speak her side, and she didn't bother. (Not that I could have possibly taken it seriously -- a painting is a painting, regardless of when it was painted. One could argue the context/meaning had some relevance, but even that wouldn't be time related -- a painting on the Spanish revolution 100 years later could have the same meaning if it was painted 100 years earlier. Or vice versa. But that doesn't even apply to scenery.) Instead she basically never spoke to me again, probably in part because of that. * Scenery is not dead. Scenery is one of my favorite forms of art.