Walter_Pall

Roboku,

It's interesting that you would say this. Maybe you think that it is a joke.

At a publik penal dicussion in Dusseldorf, Germany last year we have discusssed the subject 'bonsai, is it art?'. A gallery owner (for paintings) was on the panel. At one point he said: 'The final test of art is with the wallet. Whatever gets the higher price is the better art'.

He also said 'Everything that an artist makes is art. The same thing by some nobody is not art. If Kimura makes a tree and Joe Somebody makes exacly the same tree, the first is art and the second is not art, even if it is genuine work and not a copy'.

He also said: 'Who decides whether someone is an artist? It is an in-goup of gallery owners, museum people, arts magazine publishers and editors, judges of art exhibits, soetimes even peers. It is by no means the general public. The opinion of the general public is a contra indicator.'

Intersting views arn't they? While he admitted that this may sound somewhat cynical he inssited that this is what the art world is all about.

While he regarded me a a ral artist, I mentioned that I would rather stick with bonsai and not know much about this other world.

best regards
Walter Pall