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Originally Posted by Peter Dransfield
From the 15th-19th centuries perhaps but for several thousands of years before and for the last 130 years no.
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No! Said with such certainty. Have you polled every living artist working today? I guess early 20th Century artists such as William McGregor Paxton, Edmund Tarbell, Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, Pietro Annigoni, and John Koch didn't really exist. You continue to make ridiculous broad sweeping assumptions, parroting the old party line. If you repeat it enough will it actually come true?
I do accept the fact that the moderns and post moderns existed with their own set of goals. I don't dismiss the fact that the works they created have some marginal merit, but to me, they are akin to assignments I had done in my color and design class and I don't take them too seriously. As far as finding great and fulfilling masterpieces, I think not.
Again, I state all my conclusions as mine alone and they are truths for just me. I wouldn't be so naive to think that by blasting my point of view, just for the sake of blasting it, it becomes the ultimate truth for everyone. And If my thinking goes against the common accepted contemporary 'truths' regarding what and what isn't great ART, so much the better. Ugly, muddy, grotesque, heavy handed, simplistic, shocking, confrontational, conceptual, repetitious and formulaic pap just don't float my boat.
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