Has the book on painting been closed?

[Allan Rahbek]

Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell

To say real art has stopped say in 1890 and we have nothing more significant to add except to regurgitate the past, ensures that our art will become static and irrelevant. .

Nothing has stopped, but now and then the fashion changes.
By the outbreak of Impressionism in 1872, that is more than 130 years ago, when Monet painted his "Impression of a Sunrise" he started what was to be a development of art. He was basically interested in making the plein air painting as realistic as he could, and was very successful in doing so. The nature of the white light it self became later a trend in the Pointelism and so on and on and on.

But think about this; Artists still paint impressionistic pictures more than 100 years after the boom of that fashion, and I believe that Abstract Expressionism will be painted in a 100 years from now, considering that it don't take anything else than the desire to fiddle with a brush.

Why they do that must be because somebody likes the motives and buys them.

I think that it is a basic need, for people, to relate them selfs to there surroundings. We like to see and feel the things around us, and especially we like to build monuments to prove that we were here.

I think that a well painted portrait will always be interesting to the family, and if it is better than good, it will be a source of aesthetic enjoyment to all.

To me there is only two sorts of art, the good and the bad.

Allan