Pablo Massa wrote in response to me:

>Robert Peters:
>
>>It is not that the world was better in Mendelssohn's time but that the
>>aesthetics of the time didn't allow to fully cover the whole dissonance of
>>the world..
>
>No aesthetic allowed it ever.  That's why the procedures of one generation
>are never good for the next.  And that's why there's no "progress" in art.

So explain to me why Picasso paints differently than Rembrandt and why
Schoenberg can use very dissonant music in contrast to, say, Mozart? Simply
because their aesthetics (the aesthetics of Picasso and Schoenberg) allow
them to do it.  And this is progress in art.

Robert Peters
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