I might like the thing if it were just the trucks, or just the puddle and swans, but trucks-and-puddle-and-swans isn't right. It's like a ballerina in a lumberjack hat, it just doesn't go together.
"Ron Porter’s “Decoys” is a piece that simply cannot be missed. The oil painting depicts the back of two semi-trucks driving through a muddy field, with two delicate swans swimming in a small body of water left by a heavy rain. Porter, who lives and works in Nashville and teaches drawing and painting at Vanderbilt University, is fascinated by the backs of trucks that you see on the road. Because these large moving objects are so familiar and so much a part of our everyday, American culture, he believes that no one truly “sees” them anymore. Porter began to notice the nuances and varieties of trucks, and his decision to pair the trucks with the swans in this particular piece changes the meaning of both objects completely. It is an odd relationship. “Decoys” is a must-see and often invites intrigued stares."
I think that's a tremendously creative painting! If only a hipster had painted it, it'd be a treasure. Sadly, it was probably some painting stiff in a developing country like bulgaria who pumps out painting after painting.
Heavy-handed, affected, derivative New Leipzig School knock off. And the "I really see the backs of trucks" quack quack quack is some just too precious two-bit art professor blather.
The painting's not bad, IMO. But it doesn't have enough in common with anything by Renoir to make a useful comparison. And this hating on Renoir seems kind of silly. A lot of his work is hopelessly flawed but some of it is great.
"As I painted my homage to this amazing story, I could not help but be moved by the intricate
interplay between all of the magnificent creatures under Simba’s domain."
- Thomas Kinkade, a year before his tragic too early death, pushed to take his own life by cruel faggy art critics like Mr. Savage who think they can shove their good gay taste down the throats of decent God fearing Nashvillians.
I think it's kind of cool. Not really something I would buy, but I like the way the arist is finding beauty in such an unlikely place. There's a nice graphical juxtaposition between the linear trucks and the elegant birds. Why all the hate?
If art is supposed to be part of the banal background, then, no, this isn't good hotel art.
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"As I painted my homage to this amazing story, I could not help but be moved by the intricate
interplay between all of the magnificent creatures under Simba’s domain."
- Thomas Kinkade, a year before his tragic too early death, pushed to take his own life by cruel faggy art critics like Mr. Savage who think they can shove their good gay taste down the throats of decent God fearing Nashvillians.
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