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Message:: [QUOTE="User 67, post: 925, member: 67"]It looks old. But I would have to title this work 'try hard'. That doesn't mean that the artist doesn't have a 'name'. The work has an effete quality that is hard to define and rubs me the wrong way. The direct rip off of Rothko and the moody palette doesn't bother me as much as the over-thought additions that distract from those origins, namely the built up ridges, the orange coloring that doesn't always go all the way down, the sad shadowing on the ridges and that single blob that makes it look like it was painted flat on the driveway while a flock of geese were flying overhead. It comes off to me as a college assignment in a composition class that is trying too hard to impress. That doesn't mean this isn't by a gallery artist or even a museum artist, some of those artists make effete work, it's just that I don't like it.[/QUOTE]