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Entry: The $200 Million Used Mercedes Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_200_million_used_mercedes#10252 Post contents: Most unfortunate. Now, I understand. With respect to those requiring finality, I must state that your argument(s) remind me of the sodomites who periodically claim nearly every significant artist or genius as one of their own: i.e., Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc. Even the few who were pathetic sodomites and were truly significant would have to deny that getting porked by one of their own had little if anything to do with their own artistic or creative genius. Now you claim that Kandinsky’s abstractions are “tantric.” So what if “all forms can be reduced to simplified eternal forms”? It had nothing to do with the subject under discussion. We were – or at least I was -- discussing the thought processes of creativity and I was disabusing you (and others of a similar mindset) of the notion that “creativity is destruction.” Besides being a worn out cliche, it is deceptive. The Renaissance, Matisse, Vermeer, Velazquez, Goya, Poussin, Ingres, destroyed nothing. Creativity does not require a reason or a theory to justify its existence. It’s like a signature using an existing alphabet. Erted? Kandinsky is more than a modernist since he practically invented the idiom. No one said he’s a contemporary though his work remains very much so. Of course, I have read him; and I also applied him to my own work. That’s only one of the many reasons I know crap when I see it. Sent at: 2008 10 12