Follow-up: What is your favorite local piece of art?
MARK OMAN | Writer | Carmel Valley
A: Modern art that is all squiggles, lines and colors. Most modern American movies—they’re composed of special effects and maximum vulgarity. Art should cause a viewer to have an emotional investment. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Natural High: The abundance of nature all around here.
ZULEIMA AREVALO | Health Services | Marina
A: Carved body sculpture looks just like the person sculpted. That’s not art to me. A statue missing an arm and wearing a cloth isn’t art to me either.
Extra-Ord-dinary: The canvas paintings on the abandoned buildings at Fort Ord.
BRUCE MITCHELL | Sales | Monterey
A: Most of the items at the Old Monterey Farmers Market, the items sold as art at Costco, a lot of the art in Carmel galleries. I find it offensive that it’s called art. My final words: Thomas Kinkade.
Spanning the Gap: A wooden sculpture of the Bixby Bridge.
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