[vannrox]

I agree with this appraisal.

[quebecois]

In so many ways, the internet is allowing normal folks to run an end-around the blockades set up by the leftist establishment. It is allowing folks like these traditional artists to band together and cooperate...where as before they probably felt themselves to be loners caught in modernist-dominated institutions.

[Lady Eileen]

bump........thanks for the posts.

[paltz]

I alway liked Hughes' "Home From Sea" Here, a little boy is told his father had passed away while at sea. It's pretty powerful.

[HHFi]

I recently went to the Dallas Museum of Art to see a touring display of older works, and while there, I went through a display by some modern artist who is allegedly some sort of genius. His "art works" consisted of gigantic squarish blocks of beeswax and jars containing pollen. One of his "works" was a small wooden shelf with five mason jars sitting on it, each containing a different amount of pollen. It looked like something you'd see in the corner of someone's garden shed. Luckily, there was a beautifully-printed flier for visitors, explaining why this worthless crap was supposed to be so brilliant. I never would have known otherwise.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[MattAMiller]

Maybe it's because I don't have much in the way of formal art history education, but I always end up agreeing with everybody in these debates. I've modern art that I liked, that I thought I got on some level. Then I see some good old fashioned representational art and wonder why nobody does that anymore.

[oyez]

artsyfartzy bfl