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> you would never find the Collins style in a commercial gallery in Chelsea, say, or in a museum survey of contemporary painting...the "current art establishmen
by csense 11y ago
> you would never find the Collins style in a commercial gallery in Chelsea, say, or in a museum survey of contemporary painting...the "current art establishment, the so-called gatekeepers, hate the kind of skill and craft and vision that an artist like Collins has"...
What's the explanation for this?
- clock_tower 11y agoI think the explanation is eternalban's comment elsewhere in this thread -- according to academia, there's nothing new or interesting to be done with traditional Western painting. (What academia has to say about Japanese scroll-painting, Persian miniatures and carpets, medieval-style illumination, etc., is better imagined than described -- even though these, as well as traditional Western painting, still have plenty of interesting things that can be done with them.)
- maldusiecle 11y agoIn general, the art world for the last century has been more interested in innovative or provocative work than fine technical detail. They don't "hate" the stuff, they're bored by it, and I don't blame them; it's nothing more than obsessive replication of an earlier era's works. There are many well-regarded modern artists who had immense technical ability--Lucian Freud comes to mind--but they at least developed styles of their own.