Looks like the Bulgarian government is protesting its private sale, and the town of Balchik is trying to get the funds together to buy it before a private investor does.
I find his paintings of women difficult...he has painted his daughter in this 'porn' way as you say and I find that transgressive (is that the word I mean?) It has a taint about it, abuse of power, incestuousness, paedophilic???? As you say, he can't draw and they are heavily impastoed where he overworks them. Not a tiny patch on Rembrandt, but he has contacts, as you say... Jenny
He gives everyone much the same treatment- and his pictures of men are as uncompromising as those of women, and often foreground flaccid penises. I agree that there's something a bit "naff" about painting your daughter in the nude.
I think he's a good, minor artist, I like a lot of what he does, I just reckon his prices are too high.
i'm working up a good reply. it's been so long since i was an art history student. my critical analysis skills are rusty. but it's fun, and i've been meaning to write about lucian freud since you asked. more coming soon.
i also love francis bacon. (although i do agree that the portrait that sold looks like a moldy pear). perhaps moreso than freud. i'll get to that, too.
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or you could pick up an ancient temple
Date: 2008-10-20 06:56 pm (UTC)http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=97978
Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple
Date: 2008-10-20 07:46 pm (UTC)(Though it amazes me an archaeological site of such importance should be for sale on the open market).
Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple
Date: 2008-10-20 08:02 pm (UTC)Re: or you could pick up an ancient temple
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Date: 2008-10-20 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-20 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-20 08:12 pm (UTC)As you say, he can't draw and they are heavily impastoed where he overworks them. Not a tiny patch on Rembrandt, but he has contacts, as you say...
Jenny
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Date: 2008-10-21 08:48 am (UTC)I think he's a good, minor artist, I like a lot of what he does, I just reckon his prices are too high.
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Date: 2008-10-21 04:30 pm (UTC)i also love francis bacon. (although i do agree that the portrait that sold looks like a moldy pear). perhaps moreso than freud. i'll get to that, too.
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Date: 2008-10-21 04:56 pm (UTC)I don't particularly like Bacon, but I think he's a greater and more challenging artist than Freud.