Style and Art

Can style be misleading?

Clement Greenberg said it: "There are, of course, more important things than art: life itself, what actually happens to you....Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art." Perhaps the world would be a better place if more judges wrote well--but somehow I doubt it.

David Thomson has written about filmmakers who use style to mask lame content.

Food for thought.