The Masterpiece

Forget "beautiful" and "ugly." Use this cheat sheet at your next dinner party:

A masterpiece often breaks the rules or invents new ones. Think of James Joyce’s Ulysses redefining the novel, or Orson Welles using deep focus cinematography in Citizen Kane . They push the medium to its absolute limit. the masterpiece

Here’s the twist: Many masterpieces are technically unfinished. Forget "beautiful" and "ugly