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Trouble with non representational art is that there is always the excuse of 'oh, you simply don't understand it' if anyone is critical. But just because someone doesn't like something does not mean they don't understand it, and frankly, it is sometimes very patronising when people say that. If you need a manual to understand a piece of work, or to have studied art history, then it is either needlessly elitist or at best incomplete or incongruous. It is an easy cop out in many cases, and it is indeed often a case of the Emperor's New Clothes, with people afraid to stand up and say, 'nope, that really is just crap'.
I don't like cabbage, but it isn't because it is a mystery to me, and nobody is going to make me like it by telling me that I simply don't understand it.
Al
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Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
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