Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Right back atcha "Painter!"

I'm going right out on a limb here and separating the ability to be a good painter and a good artist.

Frida was a good artist. Not a good painter. Period.

Thomas Kincaid is a good painter.
Georgia was an amazing painter (new york cityscapes? What are ya lookin at?)
DaVinci? Come on.
Dali? DALI?! Did u take shrooms before that video? Go the National Gallery at the Smithsonian and stand in front of the Sacrament of the Last Supper, and then repeatedly smack yourself in the head for even thinking that about my boy Sal.
Picasso was a prick. And a womanizer. And an amazing painter as well as the exemplary artist everyone blindly touts him to be.
And he loved Frida.

Frida, at best was an adequate painter of extraordinary visions.
But I guarantee if she painted apples on a table, no one would've looked twice at her.
That's my definition of a good painter

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