The whole bit about art is essentially an argument by authority, from someone who is a novelist, not even a visual artist.
Wolfe may make valid points in a void but his ignorance of art history is pretty obvious, lol especially in his slightly denigrating reference to Henry Moore who was born in 1898, and thus whose career spanned from 19…
The whole bit about art is essentially an argument by authority, from someone who is a novelist, not even a visual artist.
Wolfe may make valid points in a void but his ignorance of art history is pretty obvious, lol especially in his slightly denigrating reference to Henry Moore who was born in 1898, and thus whose career spanned from 1921 to the early 1980's. But surely Moore would have fit into Wolfe's rather pedestrian view on sculpture (which honestly seems to be that nothing but hyperrealist sculptures in the style of the late renaissance are beautiful).
Then there is the cherry picking stories about the art world being hostile to folks who have the technique to pull the above off. As anyone who is versed in any way in modernist art history would know, the VAST majority of abstract artists had the chops to create hyperrealist art but chose not to do so.
Yawn, this read like an artistic version of an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
The whole bit about art is essentially an argument by authority, from someone who is a novelist, not even a visual artist.
Wolfe may make valid points in a void but his ignorance of art history is pretty obvious, lol especially in his slightly denigrating reference to Henry Moore who was born in 1898, and thus whose career spanned from 1921 to the early 1980's. But surely Moore would have fit into Wolfe's rather pedestrian view on sculpture (which honestly seems to be that nothing but hyperrealist sculptures in the style of the late renaissance are beautiful).
Then there is the cherry picking stories about the art world being hostile to folks who have the technique to pull the above off. As anyone who is versed in any way in modernist art history would know, the VAST majority of abstract artists had the chops to create hyperrealist art but chose not to do so.
Yawn, this read like an artistic version of an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.