Intellectual Madness

This won't be as linguistically profound as some of the other posts, but I have to mention something which has been in my head since the debate.

A speaker on the 'against' side of the argument pointed out that in order to make art, there needs to be an intellectual input or message, and therefore was suggesting this as a reason for L'art Brut to be a void concept.

1. This is hugely offensive in its implication that people with symptoms of 'madness' cannot be intellectual,

and

2. This speaker was implying that art is an elitist activity to be made and shared only by intellectuals.

Both of these points I refute, as Artaud himself was a very intelligent man, and indeed if we are to say that all art should be met with an intellectual eye, should there not be some kind of humiliating I.Q. test to take upon entry to an art gallery?

Emma