[squarebarb]

Turner couldn't have done what he did without classical training. An artist friend tells me they don't even teach the color wheel anymore in art school. Glad to see this article. I once shocked a roomfull of friends by saying Picasso was an out-and-out fraud.
And you really can't just throw some junk together and get it in an art show. You have to suck your way up the leftist/art establishment social ladder. Then your junk is proclaimed art and exhibited.

[AnAmericanMother]

Turner couldn't have done what he did without classical training.

Absolutely true. Self-portrait from 1799:

[headsonpikes]

"You have to suck your way up the leftist/art establishment social ladder."

Exactly. All contemporary art is political, just because we live in a politicized, essentially totalitarian and socialist era.

This age may be dying, but it has poisoned every aspect of human life, including the arts. They're all whores. ;^)

[vannrox]

A great article about Picasso being a fraud. Also at the Art Renewal Center. Go HERE.