A new campaign wants to ban the French impressionist. Here are the paintings that prove what daft philistines the ‘Renoir sucks at painting’ protesters truly areIt has happened. The gates hold fallen. Artistic civilisation has collapsed. A mob has gathered external the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,demanding that Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings be removed from its walls because they “suck”. This is it, surely. The End.
Or perhaps not. Max Geller, or whose Instagram account “Renoir sucks at painting” has mushroomed into a real life semi-serious protest movement against the French impressionist who died in 1919 and is a mainstay of every art museum worth its salt,has learned one rule for looking at art. You need to hold opinions. In order to adore some artists, you hold to dislike others. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com