tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post1944394304315568797..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: George Frederic WattsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-71653556892293484052011-11-29T14:22:49.477+11:002011-11-29T14:22:49.477+11:00He was a fine painter from an era when art was sti...He was a fine painter from an era when art was still allowed to celebrate beauty.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-14457968550718199832011-11-18T05:39:58.853+11:002011-11-18T05:39:58.853+11:00These are beautiful, as are the paintings of Edmun...These are beautiful, as are the paintings of Edmund Burne-Jones. To say that I despise modern 'art' is a huge understatement.<br />My dad was once watching a 1980s detective show (it might have been The Rockford Files) and the detective met a guy who did modern art. He asked the artist what one of the paintings was supposed to be of, and the artist replied that it was supposed to show how he was feeling when he painted it. To which the detective replied,<br />"You must have been feeling pretty bad!"Laura Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15043576932031107768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1847404584496372802011-11-11T18:52:52.284+11:002011-11-11T18:52:52.284+11:00Simply beautiful.Simply beautiful.Elizabeth Smithhttp://alcestiseshtemoa.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-41187828249255997692011-11-11T15:26:43.024+11:002011-11-11T15:26:43.024+11:00Please don't remind me of what art has become ...Please don't remind me of what art has become in the west.<br /><br />The difference between Picasso, Dali et al from their modern students is that they COULD paint representatively or in the impressionist mould, they simply chose not to.<br /><br />Most modern abstract painters and other such "artists" cannot paint a rainbow. So they choose to depict abstractly what they could not do justice to.<br /><br />And then the rest of us pay absurd amounts of tax dollars to support the pretentious wankers.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-47402714899671702022011-11-11T05:23:18.726+11:002011-11-11T05:23:18.726+11:00Prefer this type of fine art to that of the hideou...Prefer this type of fine art to that of the hideous latter "art" of Picasso, for example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com