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And if the worst thing that can happen to you by copying the Old Masters, is that you develop your ability to paint like an Old Master... W W
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LOL! Oh Darn! I can't get this Old Master out of my head!
Leopoldo: Please forgive us for having some fun at your expense. It is just that the masters did it so well. Much of the "ability" has gone out of painting IMO. There are so many artists out there who are just painting on a wing and a prayer without any real skill or understanding of their processes or techniques - not to mention composition and design.
What's worse is that opportunistic galleries and museums and collectors have endorsed this "fly-be-free" method of painting for their own purposes - money. The public at large has lost faith in artists because so much of what they see is not that much better than what they themselves could do - leading to a "but is it art?" mentality.
Don't even get me started on the Thomas Kincade "fine art prints" scandal - the fall out from that will rock the art world for a hundred years at least.
I for one and glad to see this slight swing back to realism and the fostering of people who
actually know how to paint.