Actually there is such a word, but rarely used and then not quite as you intended. Normally the mot juste is "bucolics." However your bucolica is...
I don't get how your boss can be a fine arts appraiser and not have a good idea of what this is. Mid-20th C. riff on a French Barbizon harvest...
"crap like Jackson Pollock..." Oh, dear God...
In all seriousness, I would sometimes love to be like Kardinalisimo, seeing art with minimal baggage,instead of being saddled with preconceptions....
Bev aka thelmasstuff, you wrote: I happen to be a working artist who actually went to art school, so I probably have a bit more savvy than some....
There are awful pieces and masterpieces and the two ends of the spectrum are very far apart. Going to museums and looking at art books will give...
I must defend kardinalisimo. There's a certain charm to his posts. His utter obliviousness to commonly recognized standards of quality is...
How so? Not a terribly attractive daub, but it does have some method. Beyond that, who can say?
I'd say advanced...only a few months left to live.
Who knows why this came about, but the evidence here is clear.
By the way: nice one!
Proof before letters conventionally means any example before any lettering of any kind. On the face of it I think it's probable you have a...
I must agree with brad. The watercolor does not appear to be 19th c., closer to mid 20th.
Very nice drawing...although, if I'm reading the photos corectly, lightstruck and stained. If it were mine I'd find out what a paper conservator...
Should add that I'm assuming the PT is an original not a very fine facsimile. Could only tell for sure from better photos.
The Paul Renouard attribution is almost certainly correct. A lovely little drawing. However, it should be noted that minor unsigned Renouard...
Not Hudson River School. Closer to one of the popular Barbizon motifs...but not really Barbizon either.
I thought O.P. meant Ortist's Proof.
Yes, true. I suspect our kardinalisimo buys his art from a secret gallery in Hell!
I, for one, am not surprised. :joyful:
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