An Argument on *art*

...despite being fuelled for the past three days on cold-pills, hot water with lemon & honey and copious amounts of homemade chicken soup, I did crawl off my sofa long enough to read a few blogs and ended up jumping into this discussion on the idea of writing as art.

Sure, my opinion of art is a little cynical, but hey, you try sitting through several Philosophy classes on the nature of beauty/art, then hop into a few classes analyzing the greatest masterpieces and reading the art critic reviews written at the time of their creation (yup, art critics existed way back in Caravaggio's day), and let me know if you'd be any less cynical...

Anyways, it's an interesting discussion and I'd love to hear all your opinions, either here or on the original discussion as I'm very interested in it and will be popping back to see how it progresses.

I will probably also write a post on this subject sometime in the near future as it is a subject near-and-dear to my heart.

<cough, cough> time for more soup. Thankfully I have my voice back today, though it sounds like I've got a frog lodged in my throat, so my voice keep alternating between croaky and cracking like that of a 13 year old boy.

Sexy image, I know...