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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 9814930, member: 1476&quot;]Let&#039;s see if I can get this right...</p><p><br /></p><p>#1)&nbsp; I prefer Pair #9 A. </p><p><br /></p><p>#2)&nbsp; They&#039;re both contemplative landscapes.&nbsp; Although Pair #9 A is by an amateur artist doing his very best and Pair #9 B is by a more skilled artist doing a bit better, Pair #9 A is a more successful work.</p><p><br /></p><p>#3)&nbsp; Both paintings are curiously inert.&nbsp; The artist of Pair #9 A is standing on a rocky coast under a cypress tree with a view of the sea.&nbsp;&nbsp; And yet, one has little sense of movement; the wind doesn&#039;t reach a branch, a wave doesn&#039;t reach the shore, a shadow doesn&#039;t cross the foreground.&nbsp; Still, perhaps because of the vivid palette, the horizontal composition and the open framing, it gives one the sense of looking outward and that change is possible.&nbsp; In Pair #9 B, again, the wind doesn&#039;t blow, the water doesn&#039;t ripple, the shadows don&#039;t shift.&nbsp; But because of the subdued palette, the vertical composition and the constrained framing, the effect is inward-looking and dull.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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