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From: greg@oliven.UUCP (Greg Paley)
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Subject: Re: Progress, the Arts, Razor Blades and Bull
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 13:07:01 EST
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>    I must take exception to such sentiments. Are modern tools, precise and
>    efficient though they can be, more expressive than those of the past?
>    Have you not heard our artists, who must frequently work with the
>    inhuman, faceless, plastic artifacts of our machine driven era, lamenting
>    the disappearance of the ancient crafts? 

>    Worse yet, such thinking confuses technique with art, which exists in
>    the spiritual, and not the physical, realm. Art lives in the depths of
>    the soul; it is inspired by and it touches human emotions. Only fools
>    and engineers equate technical precision with beauty.

>    Those who seek to perfect art by focusing on what they perceive as
>    physical imperfections have been blinded by its color, shape or sound.
>    Leonardo's art is a natural expression of the spirit and form of his
>    world. The assertion that it might be improved by modern paints is
>    horribly mistaken.

I would have added a posting to this subject myself if Mike Ellis
hadn't said what I would have and as well as I could have possibly
done.

Greg Paley