tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post4406273581342977837..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Sour Grape Juice (Best Served Cold)Mike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-61285231244449265192017-12-13T15:54:07.474+00:002017-12-13T15:54:07.474+00:00Andrea,
Well, Italians are famous for their good ...Andrea,<br /><br />Well, Italians are famous for their good taste...<br /><br />It's the British fad for the "suitably bad" which is annoying me. I blame Rose Wylie.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-41665464806890953652017-12-13T15:10:29.028+00:002017-12-13T15:10:29.028+00:00I see this happening quite often in art exposition...I see this happening quite often in art expositions I look at, here in Tuscany, the "need" to choose what is universally liked in this particular moment. In August, the local fine-arts public entity threw an appeal to artists for artworks destined to the next-to-be-opened new hospital wing. The response was quite huge, around 150 painters and photographers submitted their works to an academic body of critics. I sent 3 of my photos, 2 of which were judged "suitabily good", with other 36 artists and 78 works chosed for permanent display. I then went to the temporary display (1 month at the local modern art museum before their transfer to the hospital in Gen 2018), and I was pleasantly surprised finding a very strong and beautiful display of valid works, without the usual nod to "what is cool/trendy/avantgarde now"...Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13150555399278445304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-56394371093931220042017-11-19T18:07:45.238+00:002017-11-19T18:07:45.238+00:00I should have mentioned its title, "A Beach B...I should have mentioned its title, "A Beach Before the Storm". It's true, without that hint, it might equally well be "Travellers on a Vacant Lot, with Portakabin".<br /><br />Mike Mike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-41714497857153152332017-11-19T17:48:45.098+00:002017-11-19T17:48:45.098+00:00Ah! The seaside! The lack of sea foxed me. Also th...Ah! The seaside! The lack of sea foxed me. Also the yellowish rectangular blob upper right of the beach, just under the ferris wheel, looks like one of those portable offices they use on construction sites.<br /><br />I like the way it's um playing with the dialectic. Thing.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-73637069262327124792017-11-19T16:12:00.304+00:002017-11-19T16:12:00.304+00:00Ah, the English seaside! It looks a bit like Brigh...Ah, the English seaside! It looks a bit like Brighton done from memory (which certainly has a seafront Ferris wheel), and those will be "seaview apartments", though rendered with the same clarity and subtlety as the car on the right.<br /><br />The paint handling is simply bad, imho. If there's one thing I detest, it's oil or acrylic paints used as if they were coloured pencils.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-47855915589812756812017-11-19T15:22:38.612+00:002017-11-19T15:22:38.612+00:00That is certainly an interesting choice there. The...That is certainly an interesting choice there. The painter is at least competent, though. You don't throw down clouds like that without have done a bit of painting here and there. Honestly, it looks to me like a clumsy nod to Gauguin, only painting, um, something else.<br /><br />Are those council flats or something? I don't recognize the "scene" which strikes me only as a construction site in which people are picnicking, which doesn't make much sense.<br /><br />There is definitely a strong thread of "Trump (Merkel, May) is a neolbrul idiut hurr hurr" in capital-A Art these days which plays well to the judges.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.com