Property News · December 17, 2017

Our modern designs for life are no oil painting | David Mitchell


The dominance of modern art in galleries is reflected in minimal, ‘designed’ style in the home – but why should we clear our comfy clutter and gilt frames?My parents are the owners of what I’m pretty sure is a bad painting of Neath Abbey. I can’t be completely certain because I know nothing about painting and I’ve never seen Neath Abbey. But it doesn’t look much like anything I have seen, so I’m willing to believe it looks like Neath Abbey. Though not that it looks exactly like Neath Abbey – it’s not credible to me that any medieval ruin (Neath Abbey is a medieval ruin) could, in real life, so closely resemble a vertical plane of dried paint.My best shot at an objective conclusion about it is that someone of above average painting skill for a human, but below average for a professional artist, has rendered on canvas some shapes which, if you knew Neath Abbey, would remind you of it, but wouldn’t come close to fooling you that you were really looking at it. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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