The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69558   Message #1181798
Posted By: Bill D
09-May-04 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Artsy or Fartsy?
Subject: RE: BS: Artsy or Fartsy?
ah, such a wide variety of opinions there are about art & beauty! Let me show you several examples--

This was describe by one critic as "The most beautiful painting ever made"

Then look at this image, and the comments about it.

and here is one by John William Waterhouse called The Soul of the Rose It is pleasant, but is it "the most beautiful painting in the world"? as one woman says?

It seems many judge the best art by whatever they consider 'beautiful', where others look for 'technique' and still others for 'expressiveness'....some like realism, some the most abstract concepts you can imagine. I tend toward 'understated realism' with mnay, many detours. I am NOT a great student of art, and many of the items I have liked best were by people I know who will never be famous, but had fine visions nonetheless.