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| What is ordinary and who decides? Why is contemporary Art so hard for ordinary people to understand? This is some-what like asking is humanity difficult to understand? Or life, or one's children. Really - is it the art that we have difficulty with, or is it that we censor our selves to the experiences of others. What is really difficult to understand are we. Anyone might ask why anything is difficult for any, "someone uninterested" to understand. If a art work comes from a culture that thinks beautiful and of the highest statement are a thing we care nothing for, then- "not thinking so", are we superior to them? And if we are superior, " because we cannot understand their art", should we show it by censoring their art? Destroying their culture. Replacing it with ours… |