Are prog fans Musicians?

[kirk]

keith- intelligence isn't a requisite for appreciation
of the arts, but individual experience plays a role,
as does the individual makeup of the viewer/listener.

whereas the child (in us all) views the painting in
the context of "pretty flowers", the trained eye goes
beyond the surface to individual brushstrokes, ect.,
why one artist's "pretty flowers"is worth millions,
considered a masterpiece, while another isn't.
a child has no sense of "gestalt", the transcending of medium
to become something other, unique.

i should mention that my education, degree is in fine arts.
i later studied w/ dc comics sr. editor joe
(sgt.rock, hawkman, enemy ace) kubert, apprenticed
w/ michael t. gilbert of moorcock's "elric" gr. novel fame.
i won't say the switch to music (less than 3 yrs. ago)
was easy, but my art background helped greatly.
i fall heavily to the "art"side of "art vs. craft".