Wednesday, September 14, 2022

It's beautiful but I don't like it

 This is from Kleon:  playwright Sarah Ruhl’s terrific book, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write.

Here is the essay in full:

Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: “It’s beautiful but I don’t like it.” And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it meant to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism

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