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As my imaginary Noel Coward once said "one man's groove is another man's clunk. "


Jim




that is a very profound quote in my opinion.
There is a tendency to evaluate art forms as though they have some sort of fixed rules that cannot be breached. That is not only untrue, it violates the very idea of art as mode of expression.

When Van Gogh painted. his work was disparaged because it did not line up with the rules that drove all of the realism so popular in his day. He didn't want to paint realistically, he had a different vision, so he disregarded the rules that lead to realism and made up his own.

Interestingly, now there are rules that apply to impressionism. It seems that in every endeavor, the creative types invent the rules, and the non-creative types institutionalize them.


This is much like the difference between "fashion" and "style"

To be fashionable is to be in line with the middle of the bell-shaped curve.
to be stylish is to separate from the group and create a personal style.

Those who are stylish change the world, but those who are fashionable make more money.

As WienSam so frequently says: "Follow the dream"

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