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Tue, 6 Mar 2012 — Derek Burt

 I've been trying to express my disappointment not just with Mr. H, but

 with Modern/Contemperary art in general. And I think this sums up my

 position, over the years we have all seen many fine films and T.V. progs.

 charting the lives and careers of the old masters, all of these films relied

 on prints and sometimes the actual originals of the subject being portrayed. Da Vinci, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Michaelangelo etc. In no instance

could an actor or stand in artist, hope to re-create a masters work, but

can that be said of any artist, excusing Picasso, since the turn of the 20th. century. Modern art is a god send for the forger, I may not have the skill to forge any artists work but if challenged give me a Modern artist over a pre 19th. century painter any time.

Derek

Comments

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 — bvpainter

Hockney

 I strongly disagree with you. Forgers have painted versions of the great masters works for years. You can purchase a copy of almost any great master painted in a sweat shop in China, which would pass most peoples examination.

It would be just as difficult or easy to paint something by a modern painter as it is for an old master. How new do you consider modern. From the list I would presume that you would consider, the impressionists, post-impressionists etc. modern. Or do you just mean works by contemporary painters.

When TV puts on a play about or including a painter in the plot, the works are usually pretty dire, and that applies to them coming from any period.

Much as you put down Hockney I still think that he is a better painter than many contemporary painters, and he is willing to experiment.

What is your opinion on Freud, or Blackadder or Craig-Martin.