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[Studying a Miró painting] Raymond Deagan:
So, what's your opinion on modern art? Cathy Whitaker:
It's hard to put into words, really. I just know what I care for and what I don't. Like this... I don't know how to pronounce it... Mira? Raymond Deagan:
Miró. Cathy Whitaker:
Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague. Raymond Deagan:
No. No, actually, it confirms something I've always wondered about modern art. Abstract art. Cathy Whitaker:
What's that? Raymond Deagan:
That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same
So, what's your opinion on modern art? Cathy Whitaker:
It's hard to put into words, really. I just know what I care for and what I don't. Like this... I don't know how to pronounce it... Mira? Raymond Deagan:
Miró. Cathy Whitaker:
Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague. Raymond Deagan:
No. No, actually, it confirms something I've always wondered about modern art. Abstract art. Cathy Whitaker:
What's that? Raymond Deagan:
That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same
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So what's your opinion on modern art
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Uh it's hard to put into words really
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I I just know what I care for and and what I don't
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Like this I don't know how to pronounce it
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Mira Mir
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Mir
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I don't know why but I just adore it
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A feeling it gives
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I know that sounds terribly vague
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No no actually it confirms something I've always wondered about modern art abstract art
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What is that
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In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
