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Peter!
That, again, is an excellent point about Picasso's draftsmanship. In that sense, as Karin implied (in her diplomatic way!), I've possibly been sucked in by the mythology. It's quite true that many "academic" Victorians have been derided for being "slick" because they were highly skilled. Both sides of the fence in this "realist versus modernist" storm in a teacup are guilty of inconsistency. Me too: mea culpa.
I think what impresses me is "power to move". For instance (shock, horror), a recent exhibition of Soutine paintings moved me deeply. Now I can just imagine what sort of reaction ANYTHING by Soutine would get on this forum!
Of course, he was kind of mad- but then so were a lot of the others. There's something deeply human in a lot of works that would get the thumbs down from most people....Fortunately we each can appreciate whatevever we wish!
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