[MD] The Quality of Art

[Peter Corteen]

Hi Platt,

I agree very much with you when you say  'Great art, like beauty, transcends
generations'., followed by your comparisons. I'm guilty of jumping to a
conclusion here; to the question 'Has music advanced since Mozart' I guessed
you would think that it has gotten worse; apologies. However, I still have a
problem with your matching of quality and beauty. Take Picasso's 'Guernica'
for instance, hardly beautiful; more like the jagged adjacencies you'd hear
in Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' than the flowing harmonies of Mozart.

Peter