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Originally Posted by Grethe Angen
I think not only in the US.I believe it is rather a rare phenomenon that highly profiled persons just accept to be rendered almost like zombies.
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Actually my first thought was "Dawn of the Dead." They look like something one might see on a B-grade horror movie poster.
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Originally Posted by Garth Herrick
People are afraid to speak forthrightly here.
Garth
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If I may be so bold....whatever merit lies in the way the figures are rendered (if there is any) - the paint handling itself, - it is completely undercut and invalidated by the random, abstract marks that fill the background; mark-making that, to me, seems arbitrary, self-indulgent, lazy, signifying nothing....it's as if the painting wants to be representational and abstract at the same time, causing it to fail on both counts. And I'm not judging this from some kind of reactionary, anti-modernist, classical realist perspective: I would much prefer to see an entirely abstract painting by this artist - it would, no doubt, be more intriguing, (more consistent at least). And, conversely, if this artist were to really explore how this particular mark-making can render form - a worthwhile endeavor. But, as they are - speaking
forthrightly - I find these paintings really....lame. And the fact that they are official portraits of royalty....well...
Is it just me...?