The art of bluff and a definition of beauty

I COMMEND Hugh Farrelly’s expose headlined ‘the art of bluff’ (Irish Examiner, Jan 24). His depictions of some of the materials exhibited at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork left the reader without any illusions.

The art of bluff and a definition of beauty

Yet, as Hugh says, from the outset “art has always been different things to different people”.

Automatically the reader can identify the angle of Hugh’s article. And thus this perspective is maintained throughout. That is until he says “... subjectivity is at the core of all art”, which is where I beg to differ. Perhaps what Hugh is saying rather is that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’.

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