"I look at modern art as very much like what happened with communism - it was an idea that was a house of cards and couldn't work," says Allan Banks, president of the American Society of Classical Realism and vice chairman of the American Society of Portrait Artists."
What a great remark.
Two Victorian painters I like are Thomas Eakins and Dagnan Bouveret - both swam against the tide, were "realists."
![](http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/E/Eakins_Thomas/large/Starting_Out_After_Rail.jpg)
Eakins