[Sam Cree]

"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."

Eakins

[Sam Cree]

Eakins