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In Reply to: RE: He finally made it... posted by kootenay on May 19, 2017 at 09:34:59
Very powerful works, the two showing in this thread.Very difficult to warm to, but his experience of this world was likely much different to mine, and most of us here.
Personally - those abstract-expressionist (& post-modernist psychobabble) huge plain one to three colour works by such as Mark Rothko are more questionable as 'great art'. Emperor's new clothes stuff.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/19/17Follow Ups:
I went to Emily Carr University http://www.ecuad.ca/ to study art in the 70's. I went there because it's the best art school in Canada according to most of the review that I've read. Back then the expressionism movement was in vogue as a lot of my classmates were experimenting with it. One of our teachers was Jack Shadbolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Shadbolt a supposedly one of the most prominent artists in Canada. The first time I went to his class he was showing us an example of one of his work (shown in the image above), which I thought nothing of it, but childish scribbles using ancient brushing techniques. I thought this man can't draw even if his life depends on it. You have to remember that as an aspiring artist I was trying to emulate the artists of the renaissance period such as Boteccili, Michaelangelo, Jan Van Eyck just to name a few. After studying with Shadbolt and his paintings I came to realize that it is not easy as I thought it would be. Those childish scribbles that he uses in his art that I've mentioned earlier do have meanings so are the colors he picks. Radical as they maybe but they are all there for a purpose, which to captivate the viewers evoke emotions and ideas.
Looking back at it now. He really was a genius.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
A magnificent painting in my opinion. Deserves to be at the MOMA
Cheers
Bill
his approving fans.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
any artistic expressive movement, genre if it gets big will have good stuff happen.
However? 80% through 95% will be so-so, down to crap.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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