> >> So, the "Painter of Light" (tm) has passed at the early age of 54 > >> years. The Kenny G of painting is gone... > >> > > > > He may not have been too fast to live, but 54 is too young to die. > I'm > > 54. I shall be mightily pissed off if I don't live well well beyond > 90. > > > > I love this phrase from the article someone linked to "it has become > > fashionable for art critics to dismiss his pieces." > > > > "It has become fashionable" - as if it was a mere passing fad among > > the ignoranti, and the true artistic value of this oeuvre will come > to > > be understood with the passing of the years. > > > > Hi work was conceptually trite and formulaic in execution, but he was > not without talent. Of course his main talent was marketing: he > discovered a way to turn painting into a very lucrative enterprise. For > that, he is to be commended. >
sure, if you think making money out of shit is the be-all and end-all, but his work is still shit and it will always be dismissed as shit by people who know shit from shinola. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
