Why do so many people hate IMPASTO?

[sidbledsoe]

me, i don't hate paint of any type, i just love it all, fresh tubes and messy palettes included!

[llawrence]

Originally Posted by Keith Russell

Thank goodness all that's over!

Yeah, and now we've got new academic realist types doing exactly the same thing, but now the finger's pointing in the other direction. The more things change...

[0chre]

Originally Posted by llawrence

Yeah, and now we've got new academic realist types doing exactly the same thing, but now the finger's pointing in the other direction. The more things change...

The need to feel superior seems to be greater than the desire to paint with some artists...

[Keith Russell]

Originally Posted by llawrence

Yeah, and now we've got new academic realist types doing exactly the same thing, but now the finger's pointing in the other direction. The more things change...

Huh?

I think there will always be artists, of all types, who confuse "good" with "what I do"--whatever it is that "they" do. It's not everyone in the current "crop" of "Academic Realists"...and the "snobs" aren't limited to that one group, either!

I enjoy a variety of art, not only paintings. Rothko is one of my favourites, as is Vermeer--and I'm a big fan of sculpture, performance art, street art, film, digital art, etc.

The kind of work I do is fairly narrow--but then, I don't confuse "what is good" with "what I do."

[llawrence]

Originally Posted by Keith Russell

Huh?

I think there will always be artists, of all types, who confuse "good" with "what I do"--whatever it is that "they" do. It's not everyone in the current "crop" of "Academic Realists"...and the "snobs" aren't limited to that one group, either!

Right - where's the argument? You're kinda sayin the same thing I was...

[Keith Russell]

Originally Posted by llawrence

Right - where's the argument? You're kinda sayin the same thing I was...

"...and now we've got new academic realist types doing exactly the same thing..."

It sounded like you were castigating the "academic realist types", which would be doing the same thing you're accusing "them" of doing.

[llawrence]

Originally Posted by Keith Russell

It sounded like you were castigating the "academic realist types", which would be doing the same thing you're accusing "them" of doing.

Not in the slightest little way is what I said the same thing as what artists do when they put down an entire style of art for being different from theirs. The Academy did it, the Modernists did it, the Postmodernists did it, and now the new Academy is doing it - and here we are full circle, apparently without having learned anything from it. I do my best not to do it - and I don't think I have, at least not anytime recently, and I'm pretty darn sure not in this thread.