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To: AnAmericanMother
LOL...My personal attacks?!?! You're still missing my point (and now you've mentioned 'Found' three times, BTW). And as for me being petty and mean? You're the one that came out sayin Rossetti couldn't draw. I'm still waiting for your sketches so I can see how it's really done. (By the way, some of my stuff is viewable on my FR homepage). You then go on to say, "And while everybody has stuff they should toss in the trash, you're supposed to work out those basic issues before you start applying paint to canvas..."

Are those your rules? I've thrown a lot of stuff away after I've started painting...or more expensively, started laying gold leaf. Sometimes, no matter how much you prep a piece, once you start fleshing it out, you don't like what you see. You rework it trying to salvage it. Sometimes it comes out better than you anticipated, but more often, you pitch it, or you keep it around for your personal reflection and study.

But back to my point...if you read the stated aims of the PRB, their declared purpose was to escape the 'painterly' and academic constraints that had evolved in Europe since the late Renaissance. Your criticisms of Rossetti are precisely that he didn't comply with the academic conventions of his time. If you've taken what I've said personally, it's because your criticisms seem to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of what Rossetti had set out to do. As I stated before, if you think his work sucks, that's fine. If you think his stated objectives were wrong, that's your right to do so. However, if you want to criticize Rossetti for his failure to adhere to convention, or to work in the manner of other established artists, you're missing the point altogether.

66 posted on 08/17/2011 6:24:47 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I'm sorry, but I have no interest in continuing this conversation, as you seem completely unable to keep 'personalities' out of it.

You have leveled some extremely discourteous insults that you (I hope) would have been ashamed to make in person. I see no reason to tolerate that.

A pity, because I think you have some good ideas and points to make and I would have liked to discuss them in a civilized manner.

72 posted on 08/17/2011 8:08:54 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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