Sentence examples for that high art from inspiring English sources

But is it better to leave kids with the sad belief that high art is boring?

The moment, he knew, was in keeping with Mr. Fairey's well-known injunction that high art must take to the streets.

But it soon became derailed by the tedious and misguided mantra that high art was elitist, so pop stars and footballers were in and out of No 10 every other week.

Packing my bag on the morning of the British premiere of Tantalus in Salford earlier this year, I realised - as I arranged the six bottles of Lucozade Sport and the high-protein snacks of chicken pasta salad beside my notebook - that high art had now merged with extreme sports.

In one corner sits Jonathan Franzen, author of the most critically acclaimed novel of the year; in the other is the country's most powerful talk show host Oprah Winfrey; and dividing them is the age-old argument that high art and popular culture are mutually exclusive.

We think that "high art" is for an elite.

Even some defenders of that high-art literary tradition took Mr. Franzen to task.

As we fundamentally change the way we process information, it is possible that high-art music could disappear altogether, replaced by some nebulous stew.

"In most countries, you either make films that are high art or films for the general public--for people to enjoy," one director told the writer.

I agree that Warhol — along with many other artists from the 1950s on — opened up new ways of making art that traditional "high art" had excluded.

Mostly, it embodied an experiment that integrated high art into popular culture.