I did an art school project last summer Ole Miss for elective on Tom Gainesborough versus Sir Josh Reynolds
Tough call
One a better painter
The other more successful and prolific
I can acknowledge that paintings like Gainesborough and Reynolds created are great art but I'm indifferent to most of it.
Living across the Potomac from DC meant that every year I and my fellow elementary school savages would get carted over to the National Art Gallery to be subjected to great art. I was immune their blandishments. I mean I do like Vermeer and Escher and a few other artists but I'm mostly a philistine.
