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In my opinion!!!
Michael,
I feel that Fischl's work is clumsy and heavy-handed. This has nothing to do with whether it is tight or loose. In comparison, Rodin was a great sculptor with a loose representational style. When I cited Bouguereau and Paxton as examples of art that I find appealing, I could just as easily have said Sargent or Raeburn. Sargent was a great painter with a loose representational style. William Merrit Chase was, in my opinion, clumsy and heavy-handed with a loose painterly style. Tightness or looseness has nothing to do with the quality of the work. I feel that Fischl's work is poorly executed and in order to get attention he flirts with controversy. I also happen to think his artistic statement was in extremely poor taste.
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