The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
Peter SchjeldahlSmithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.
Peter SchjeldahlRembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.
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