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Pga en jobbresa kommer här ett 3-pack Dagens Citat. Min favoritkrönikör Dave Barry har gjort en djupdykning i konsthistoria;

The Enormous Naked Women Phase
The reason this theme is so common in old paintings is that years ago

Europe was terrorized by packs of enormous naked women.  They would

stride into a town, munching on pears, and threaten to knock down the

cathedral if their portraits weren't painted immediately.  Eventually

they were driven off by a particularly harsh winter, but their

paintings are still popular today because they offer such a good value

in terms of square yards of painting per dollar.

                      -- Dave Barry

After the Mother and Child Phase came the Enormous Naked Women Eating

Fruit phase, which was followed by the Just Plain Fruit with No Women

of Any Kind Phase and the Famous Kings and Dukes Wearing Silly Outfits

Phase.  All of these phases were part of the Sharp and Clear School of

painting, which means that even though the subjects were boring, they

were at least recognizable.  The Sharp and Clear School ended with

Vincent Van Gogh, who invented the Fuzzy but Still Recognizable School

and cut off his ear.  This led to the No Longer Recognizable at All

School, and finally the Sharp and Clear Again but Mostly Just

Rectangles School, which is the school that is popular today, except

at shopping malls.

                      -- Dave Barry

Let's say you're looking at a painting of two large green rectangles.

If you say something like, "Those two large green rectangles are very

attractive," people will realize immediately that you do not

appreciate art.  What you want to say is: "Using the tension created

by the contrast in line, shape and tone, offset by the almost

deliberately simplistic linearity of hue, the artist subtly, yet

inevitably, leads the viewer to a greater awareness of the need for

more controls over the acquisition and use of our nation's mineral

resources, particularly zinc."  This particular sentence will work on

almost any brand of art except enormous naked women, who obviously

have nothing to do with zinc.

                      -- Dave Barry

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