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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 116429, member: 59&quot;]I like the drama of Painting A and the tension between the bright light of the blast furnace behind the brooding darkness of the buildings in shadow. Coincidentally, I live within 2 blocks of a steel recycling plant, built on the site of a Youngstown Steel facility. My house was one of those built in the neighborhood to provide housing for the workers and managers about 100 years ago, mine in 1916. (Happy 100th Birthday!) Of course it has been ages since there was a functioning blast furnace over there (the recycling uses electricity to melt the incoming scrap), but the buildings look a lot like the ones in the painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Painting B is just strange - old barns? and ranch house in a pastoral setting with a huge industrial complex behind them? If it were more carefully painted it might make a statement, but I see it as a bit sloppy (what is that dark brown slash sticking up on the right side of the house, for instance.) Maybe it&#039;s supposed to be &quot;impressionist?&quot; In any event, I&#039;m not a fan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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