"You had to be taught to love Picasso, because nobody would love him otherwise"

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so says ARC chairman fred ross in 'pulling back the curtain,' an article posted to the art renewal center website.

http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2001/ASOPA/bad_art_good_art1.asp

it's mostly standard rubbishing of "the modernists" (who were 'intent upon proving the two-dimensionality of the canvas,' apparently) and i'm not so much interested in discussion along these lines, but rather am curious about the general platform of the art renewal center: namely, that there's this whole boatload of 19th century painters & sculptors who retained the technique and skill of the old masters and so had to be carefully written out of history by a movement that no longer cared for (and were in fact deeply suspicious of) such things. really poor thinking throughout, but a lot of the artists he champions are really, really good, i think.

the website has some pretty breathtaking hi-rez scans of a lot of this stuff and i'm actually really taken with some of it. like this bouguereau...i'd never heard of him, and though some of it reminds me of those 'photorealistic paintings' hawked at mall kiosks, it's hard to deny something like this:
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=25

also there's some really cool stuff from the orientalists which, even though they're mostly portraying people and customs that never existed outside of western imagination, is pretty damn captivating.
like this: http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=95

anyone know more about this stuff?

― edward bast (e. bast), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

keep your picasso to yourself, DON'T YOU KNOW ANNA NICOLE SMITH HAS DIED??!?!??!?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Picasso has died, too.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the cry just went up two cubes down from me.

sorry :-(

― edward bast (e. bast), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always so fascinated by the Geir Hongros of the world.

Though, I do and always have found much of this kind of art beautiful. I agree that there has been a tendency to dismiss it. I especially always loved Waterhouse...he appealed to and continues to appeal to my inner 12 year old Romantic.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

programme on now on sky arts

cunt couldnt draw

fuck off

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:11 (seven years ago)

throw the pint begbie

― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:13 (seven years ago)

"nawns gettin oot o this gallery til ah find oot what cunt drew that"

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:15 (seven years ago)

counterpoint:

http://www.blogmuseupicassobcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MPB_110.873.jpg

http://www.blogmuseupicassobcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MPB_110.590.png

http://www.blogmuseupicassobcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MPB_110.792.png

― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:27 (seven years ago)

have you nothing better for doing

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:29 (seven years ago)

he never coloured them in or nothing

― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:37 (seven years ago)

xp says the guy who's role-playing "professional philistine" as a new look for 2018

― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:37 (seven years ago)

I have never been a total fan of Picasso tbh with some exceptions, but there is no denying that creatively he was an absolute frigging force.

― calzino, Monday, 12 March 2018 09:40 (seven years ago)

nothing better than defending one of the all-time greats against this foul besmirchment?

curiously i was doing the same in person last night, although i'm no fanboy and i agree he was often inclined to do a great impression of a guy who couldn't draw for beans.

xps aye that's about my view calzino.

― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:41 (seven years ago)

ha i meant this week tbh

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 09:56 (seven years ago)

last summer i went to the picasso museum in barcelona which mainly focuses on his youthful work, you know, when he was still playing the lesser free trade hall, and well.. the dude had it

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:20 (seven years ago)

xp says the guy who's role-playing "professional philistine" as a new look for 2018

'2018'

― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:20 (seven years ago)

"role-playing"!

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:21 (seven years ago)

ah come on i swear you've switched your style up a bit lately

― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:33 (seven years ago)

im always open to non-chancers tbh

― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Monday, 12 March 2018 10:51 (seven years ago)

"nawns gettin oot o this gallery til ah find oot what cunt drew that"
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Sunday, March 11, 2018 10:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can I just...

― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 12 March 2018 12:00 (seven years ago)

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