The conundrum of the workshops (F for Fake)

Orson Welles recites some verses of Kipling’s The Conundrum of the Workshops to kindle the debate about what we consider art, half-jokingly showing some of his views about artists, experts and fakers.

The stanzas quoted are the first one in the poem —at the beginning of this video— and the fist two lines of the fifth -at the end, which reinforce the idea of subjectivity when speaking of art:

WHEN the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

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The tale is old as the Eden Tree—as new as the new-cut tooth—
For each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows he is master of Art and Truth;

Видео The conundrum of the workshops (F for Fake) канала Santi Abad