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Originally Posted by Richard Bingham
Well said, Marvin. Very well said!
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Strangely enough I have a good deal of sympathy with Marvin's remarks. I pretty much gave up Art because I did not feel I had particularly profound new things to say and this was wrong of me. Tendencious art is always problematic, including in my opinion religious art and art should always seek to go beyond the message into sensations and experiences of subject and materials.
Now I don't sit here thinking about what my contribution to art should be and I am allowing myself to be happy just trying to get better at describing my subject. But and it is a But...I don't allow my private experiences to colour my view of Art History or try to justify what I do now by rewriting history as I believe Art Renewal are trying to do in particular by dishonest quote mining (the Degas/Monet quote for example). Bouguereau might well deserve to be reconsidered for some of his portraits (not all) but his allegorical works are real fingers down the throat jobs as Degas and Monet made clear.