Word: artists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate student in art history, I must take exception to the response to your article on the auctioning of Van Gogh's Sunflowers ((LETTERS, May 4)). A reader states that "paintings were meant to be enjoyed by individuals with taste and an understanding of the artist's talent. They were not meant to be viewed by hundreds of schoolchildren being shooed past canvas-laden museum walls on the way to the cafeteria." The attitude displayed here is one of blatant elitism, which not only equates the enjoyment of art with a certain level of education but also implies that "taste...
...make too much of it, but Slater Barron is a lint artist...
...artist whose medium is lint...
Barron gets so tired of talk that runs like that, and yet it happens all the time. "I've been working with lint so long, I don't see it as anything but an art material," she says. "Artists work with weird materials, or what some people see as weird. I'm not any different from any other artist...
...does not mean that she is not any different from any other artist, rather, that her individuality is not so rare when one considers the art scene. Or at least that is what one gathers in Slater Barron's presence -- that and lint...