Amazing.

[Cardboard Junkie]

I plan on posting it. It will be short and to the point. It will also take a while.

[D. Bergin]

As the father of a daughter who is presently attending an art school on a significant academic scholarship, stuff like this kind of angers me a little bit, that people buy into this crap.

What our own Mr. Kriendler does is pure talent. This is trash for the pretentious art crowd. Art by artists who can't really do art, but disguise it as having some sort of deep meaning.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Barnett Newman was a giant figure in American Abstract Expressionism and one of the greatest of the "color field" painters.

[steve B]

I will say that I've seen some of the abstaract stuff while on museum visits. I never gor Pollack before I stood next to one. I don't think I've ever seen one of Newmans in person. The Pollack was huge and very textural. The mechanical side of me was amazed the huge globs of paint had dried without cracking and falling off. Maybe Newman had something else going on besides just a wide swath of color?

I feel the same way about the impressionists. Nice pictures, but not great until you're in the same room.

I still think 43 million is way steep for what it is. That's like two really great Rockwells, or maybe 20+ lesser ones.
Or a Rembrandt plus change?

Steve B

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by steve B

I will say that I've seen some of the abstaract stuff while on museum visits. I never gor Pollack before I stood next to one. I don't think I've ever seen one of Newmans in person. The Pollack was huge and very textural. The mechanical side of me was amazed the huge globs of paint had dried without cracking and falling off. Maybe Newman had something else going on besides just a wide swath of color?

I feel the same way about the impressionists. Nice pictures, but not great until you're in the same room.

I still think 43 million is way steep for what it is. That's like two really great Rockwells, or maybe 20+ lesser ones.
Or a Rembrandt plus change?

Steve B

That Rembrandt and Rockwell are shown in the same museums as Newman and Pollock, truly boggle my mind.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

That Rembrandt and Rockwell are shown in the same museums as Newman and Pollock, truly boggle my mind.

+1 What's next? Weyland and Kincade? Ugh!

[steve B]

Weyland the comics guy? Maybe not. Although he's not bad as comics guys go.

Kinkaide ? I think eventually. Although it's always struck me as hudson river school done in day-glo colors. There are certainly people who tried to copy him and only managed to make some bright but horrible pictures.

My tastes are pretty varied- Escher, Bosch, Dali, DaVinci, (Actually most of the better italian painters of that era) Calder, Mucha, Gibson....

But not Picasso, or a few others who just seem overrated. Picasso is a puzzle to me, my art teacher showed me a book about him that showed some stuff he did at some early age like 12. Incredibly impressive compared to the stuff that made him famous.

Steve B