{"id":74736,"date":"2017-12-17T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-modern-designs-for-life-are-no-oil-painting-david-mitchell\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T10:03:22","slug":"our-modern-designs-for-life-are-no-oil-painting-david-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/our-modern-designs-for-life-are-no-oil-painting-david-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Our modern designs for life are no oil painting | David Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe dominance of modern art in galleries is reflected in minimal, \u2018designed\u2019 style in the home \u2013 but why should we clear our comfy clutter and gilt frames?My parents are the owners of what I\u2019m pretty sure is a bad painting of Neath Abbey. I can\u2019t be completely certain because I know nothing about\u00a0painting and I\u2019ve never seen Neath Abbey. But it doesn\u2019t look much like anything I have seen, so I\u2019m willing to believe it looks like Neath Abbey. Though not that it looks exactly like Neath Abbey \u2013 it\u2019s 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\u2019t come close to fooling you that you were really looking at it. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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