1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die

by Stephen Farthing (ed.)
Category: "Art/Photography"
Pages:941
Year of Publication:2007
Date Added:05/13/2009
Date Read:11/23/2009
Notes:1001 paintings with half-page descriptions of the artist and the work and whatever inspiration or movement he was part of, usually with guesses as to what the artist might have meant. About half the paintings are from the 20th and 21st centuries.
My Rating: 6

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Review - 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die

The old stuff was interesting, right up to the end of the Impressionists. After that, art stopped being about truth and beauty and began being about the artist. "What can I do that hasn't been done before and what claim can I make about it that will make me sound important?" A lot of it was pretentious, a lot of it was silly and much of it was plain evil.

Reviewed by Roger on 2009-11-23 12:43:47

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