gardega on art

(kind of in order)

Raphael---greatest lines of all time

Leonardo----universal genius

Michelangelo---"painting is not my art"

Velasquez---master of soul.

Goya--master painter of the dark underbelly of mankind

Vermeer---his circles of light are the circles of holy genius

Van Gogh--passion above all--bad drawing skills

Munch---the horror!

Odd Nerdrum--modern master who is not modern


William Blake--the world unseen!

Picasso---painted checks and sloppy but was still brilliant.

DALI----next to picasso the greatest artist/ mind of 20th century

Houkusai---perfection

Alfred Kubin---lonely genius

Gericault---His raft couldnt save us from modernism but that is not his fault!

Church--heart of the andes!!!! better than some renaissance paintings.

Thomas Moran--color, color color!!!

Courbet---a powerhouse of art.

Gardega---bad artist but still better than my stilted contemporaries who worship at the wrong alters.


Tres Mal:

Pollacko*---those who cant do---drip

De kooning---bah!

Chagall---7 thumbs

Jasper Johns---nyet!

Rauchenberger---time has not served you well..

Burgero---sugar and more sugar, refined into nothing...angels cannot fly with wings made of sugar

sargent--all butter and no waffles





*All the abstract expressionists can be lumped together and tossed into the trash like old sushi.