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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 114628, member: 37&quot;]My comments on the paintings ..... Both have merits but I don&#039;t think either are particularly successful.&nbsp; I actually like A better than B.</p><p><br /></p><p>Painting A: </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a still life treated in a semi-abstract way.&nbsp; I appreciate the treatment and the technique.&nbsp; The blocking treatment moves it more toward abstraction.&nbsp; It may be hard to tell from the photo but the painting has heavy impasto and really raises from the canvas.&nbsp; I think it is a technique that adds interest and makes the painting more dynamic.&nbsp; I think where this fails is that it is either not real enough looking, or abstract enough.&nbsp; It needs to go one way or the other. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think this painting would have better impact on a larger scale.&nbsp; It is a bold painting and the small size tends to trivialize it.&nbsp; I might actually hang this one if I didn&#039;t have better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Painting B:</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure where to start on this one since there is so much I do not like about it.&nbsp; I do like the composition and get what the artist was going for.&nbsp; I get the Christian bent of the painting and find that aspect successful.&nbsp; It is also a modern still life that would fit into an MCM interior well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I find the technique on this one to be insipid.&nbsp; A lot of effort went in to planning this out and executing the basic design.&nbsp; I think the artists spent all their effort doing so and just colored in the painting afterwards.&nbsp; It is flat and lifeless.&nbsp; There is no technique or brushwork to the painting.&nbsp; The color choices are, for the most part, bland.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t stir any emotion in me at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those bean-headed people drive me crazy.&nbsp; The way the two on the sides have their heads tilted makes no sense.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would think the painting stronger without any people in it at all or just with the central figure.&nbsp; I find the central figure&#039;s religious connotation to be too literal.&nbsp; I think we would get the idea without a halo if that is what we are seeing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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