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I hate to break it to you Mr. Keaveney, but if all artists in need of
psychotherapy visited shrinks instead of creating art, museums would be
empty. Art History 101.

        Is this what they are teaching in Art History 101?  I gues that
        explains a lot.

        I think you mean Art Therapy 101.

        It is this belief that is driving the art world  into
         the disastrous state that it's in now.

         HMMMM, That's funny, I never knew that one had to be in need
         of psychotherapy to be a great artist.  Damn I guess I will
         never be exhibited in any museum.  Boo Hoo.

Only when art is completely bound up with (technical and scientific) industry wi
become possible to launch a planned attack on trivial taste and fight
for the interests of future socialization.
          -N. Lukhmanov "Life as It Should Be." (1928)


So I guess the theme for 20th century art is "Art as a whore in
service of the psychological insecurities of the creator."

William P. Keaveney