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WE ARE REPEATING THE LAST ISSUE OF OUR EZINE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
     Welcome to our fifth edition of the "Artists Ezine", an online magazine featuring material produced by visual artists and opinions based on the visual artists perspective. This is a graphic intensive site, so if you have a dial-up connection, please be patient. Also a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 is necessary for proper viewing. If you have a large monitor, 1280 x 1024 is optimal. Please use Internet Explorer 5.0 and/or Netscape 7.1 or better, for your browsers to best view this site.
     Our "Featured Articles" cover all subjects, interviews, fiction, and non-fiction, written by visual artists. Our "Why Artists Don't Get Paid" contains, controversial material, showing how visual artists are portrayed in the media, how they are treated by society, and how they behave in the public eye. All of which has resulted in our not be paid any respect since the Stone Age. The "Op-Ed" page features cutting edge commentary as well as editorial reply from you. Our hope is that you will feel free to comment on any of the material so we can publish as balanced a perspective as possible.
     In addition we feature "Poetry", "Cartoons", "Videos" (Windows Media Player), and "Music" (mp3s). All of this material has been produced by artist members of the San Diego Visual Artists Guild.
     Included in the "Links to Services" page is paid advertising contributed by businesses and individuals who support visual artists.

"Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's `plays'; or
listened to the `music' of John Cage; or looked at Andy Warhol's `paintings'- has experienced that feeling of incredulous puzzlement: But this is nonsense! . . . if it made sense, it could be evaluated. The essence of modern intellectual snobbery is the `emperor's new clothes' approach. Teachers, critics, our self-appointed intellectual elite make it quite clear to us that if we cannot see the superlative nature of this `art'- why, it merely shows our ignorance, our lack of sophistication and insight. Of course, they go beyond the storybook emperor's tailors, who dressed their victim in nothing and called it fine garments. The modern tailors dress the emperor in garbage."

Ron Merrill