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From: tal i Category: Art Date: 05 July 2007 Time: 06:38 AM Review: In the churches what makes the differences between the biggies and the smallies? Between the ones with queues, like giotto, piero, fra angelico, and the dullards who have just painted another stiff rehash of the jesus myth. Is is all just hype? Do we buy tickets for some artists, crowd around in hushed tones and crane our neck to the heavens just because we are sheep? Or there is a real difference in quality, expression, colour, technique, feeling, idea? If there is a difference, what circumstances and person makes it. And can it be created or taught in art schools. If great art is real, than why arent we working it harder to make more of it. Or have we had enough of it. So Piero, you clown, is it the sad faces, or elegant folds, or compositions or realism, or nice colours that make you superior. or what?