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Turner paintings - a load of cr*p
On the news today a woman has donated some Turner paintings to the nation. I enjoy a good picture the same as the next person but do you think some of the praise and also the valuation of some of these paintings grossly overdone. He obviously has tremendous talent but some of the pictures appear hastily done. Is it not in the bounds of all creative artists to produce some rubbish and should we be able to criticize them for what they are?
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Turner overvalued? what are you smoking?
This man was the greatest artist ever to come from this country. The French make a huge deal over impressionism and people like Monet's work
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/ima ges/monet_sunrise_l.jpg
Now compare that to the turner donated to the nation
http://www.theartwolf.com/turner.htm
and tell me Turner wasn't doing this nearly 50 years earlier!
If you look at his contempories their pictures look stiff, posed, photograhic.
The whole purpose is to convey an impression of a scene the way someone might experience it without necessarily producing some exact photographic replica.
OK no artist ever produces consistant brilliance but might I humbly suggest you try to better it yourself before dismissing it as cr@p
This man was the greatest artist ever to come from this country. The French make a huge deal over impressionism and people like Monet's work
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/ima ges/monet_sunrise_l.jpg
Now compare that to the turner donated to the nation
http://www.theartwolf.com/turner.htm
and tell me Turner wasn't doing this nearly 50 years earlier!
If you look at his contempories their pictures look stiff, posed, photograhic.
The whole purpose is to convey an impression of a scene the way someone might experience it without necessarily producing some exact photographic replica.
OK no artist ever produces consistant brilliance but might I humbly suggest you try to better it yourself before dismissing it as cr@p
If you think they are rubbish have a look at this link, this piece of tripe sold for $54 million.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/paintingflowers/p aintings/sunflowers_van_gogh.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/paintingflowers/p aintings/sunflowers_van_gogh.shtml
Some of Turner's paintings have been printed in the press this week. Any inflated price by any artist bought by the nation has either to be found from taxpayers money or failing that lottery cash.
On a distant analogy but valid non the less if a householder brings in a painter and decorator and he does a slap up job he would be charged for gaining money under false pretences.
On a distant analogy but valid non the less if a householder brings in a painter and decorator and he does a slap up job he would be charged for gaining money under false pretences.
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