tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post5178750293357956997..comments2024-03-27T22:55:57.188-07:00Comments on Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Getty Got a Turner, or Maybe NotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-7435902553758386742010-07-14T10:39:32.207-07:002010-07-14T10:39:32.207-07:00It's not really British, it is an early modern...It's not really British, it is an early modern piece, as Michelangelo was too, among the first to paint energy, and go directly to the soul through feeling with the eyes with no literary or psychobabble dependancy, something so rare now. Turner was closer to a late Monet and even AB Ex painters, as were Cezannes watercolors, than Reynolds or Gainsborough, though i also truly appreciate Constable. Still, turner was a great artist, and that knows no set time.Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-9352302780523496382010-07-10T08:50:58.720-07:002010-07-10T08:50:58.720-07:00This is a great Turner, yet it does not fit at all...This is a great Turner, yet it does not fit at all with the Getty's paintings collection. I heard a Getty curator once say that they did not buy British paintings because there are already enough masterpieces in LA at the Huntington.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-57918654794486573812010-07-09T19:33:28.916-07:002010-07-09T19:33:28.916-07:00This would be wonderful, we dont have many Turners...This would be wonderful, we dont have many Turners in America let alone LA, always enjoyed the Fricks when there. i can do without Titians typical over the top show piece, he is interesteting, but rather get Goyas and Rembrandts and quattrocento painters. Italians weren't good with oils except in portraits, and dont get me started with the perv caravaggio. Dark and moody and far from realistic, just angry, not that far from hogarth. Artistes love him now because we are in asimlar decadent age.<br /><br />And forget Canova. i like this quote from an old art book i have called The Modern World. "Canova with his assistants was responsible for a great quanitity of what Hildebrandt later described as 'petrified human bodies'".<br />More like porcelain figurines for grandmas mantle. Well done, but hopelessly tacky. The Brits did us a favor. <br /><br />Save the Watts Towers, tear down the Ivories.Donald Frazellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438703089946598999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388041396976352748.post-1859827249009142872010-07-07T15:03:43.839-07:002010-07-07T15:03:43.839-07:00Also, I have to think that with the recent fundrai...Also, I have to think that with the recent fundraising drives in Great Britain for the Raphael in 2002, the Titians, and a few others, the well has run dry in terms of public support. It's like saying that Boston needs another Monet, even if it's really pretty. See also: http://theartoflaw.blogspot.com/2010/07/getty-center-finally-puts-its-money.htmlSteve Roachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977294123082321381noreply@blogger.com