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How Kitsch are you?

Is a great work made with joy?

Emotional state will not inflict the result.

Things are better achieved with pleasure.

Should your work reflect your time?

The spirit of your time is also your own spirit.

If you reflect your time you will die along with it.

Do you agree with the claim that Disney was the most dangerous man in America?

Yes, fiction stories should “let you down” gently since hope creates bitterness.

No. Romanticized fiction confirms your life and helps you imagine your future goals.

A nude by Lucian Freud or a nude by Andrew Wyeth?

Freud – an uncomplimentary approach to reality challenges the viewer.

Wyeth – great painters depict their subjects with dignity.

Can you make an impersonal self-portrait?

Any portraiture should display a universal, not personal truth.

No, then it would no longer be an expression of the self.

Is there more to a painting than what meets the eye?

If a painting has soul, it’s something outside the technical execution.

Nothing exists beyond the surface of the canvas.

Should a movie contain the impossibility of a flying man?

Only if it’s credibly depicted.

No, we must be able to confront unromantic reality.

Should a work transcend the limitations of physical scale and order?

Beautiful things are neither miniscule or gigantic according to nature.

Freedom from the restraints of reality is the key to making a great work.

Can you take pleasure in an abstract painting?

The spontaneous expression is heartfelt and true to the instinct of the painter.

Colors spread at random give less pleasure than a portrait sketched in black and white.

What is appealing in Mona Lisa?

That which is familiar to us.

Something divergent.

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