Well, yeah... cloth... He's definitely amazing. He's just so flamboyant, such a show-off and over-the-top for me. Like the mannerists - I dislike mannerism because I just want to tell them "Ok, ok, I get the POINT. Now will you do it like NORMAL now?"
Not that he's mannerist in that weird abstracting way, but - I dunno. Art seems to come and go in waves of emotional outbursts and intellectual serenity - the linests vs the colorists, the Poussinists vs the Rubenistes, medieval-renaissance vs. baroque-roccoco, Dutch vs. Italian, reformation vs counter-reformation, neoclassicism vs romanticism... and I usually tend to lean toward the more reserved, intellectual, calm classical sides.
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Date: 2008-06-28 02:47 am (UTC)Not that he's mannerist in that weird abstracting way, but - I dunno. Art seems to come and go in waves of emotional outbursts and intellectual serenity - the linests vs the colorists, the Poussinists vs the Rubenistes, medieval-renaissance vs. baroque-roccoco, Dutch vs. Italian, reformation vs counter-reformation, neoclassicism vs romanticism... and I usually tend to lean toward the more reserved, intellectual, calm classical sides.