Favourite piece of art? Page 10

Quote: George Kaplan @ September 7 2013, 11:43 PM BST

Glad you liked them too. I had a feeling you would.

The only *problem* with the Pompidou Centre is that their collection is huge. Once we'd looked at their touring Roy Lichenstein exhibition, and their collection from 1900-1960, we were too mentally knackered/saturated to look at their contemporary collection from 1960 to the present, even after a long meal break in between.

We'd also hoped to visit the Musee D'Orsay which I hear is a spectacular building, converted from an old railway station, and has a great collection of Impressionists, but we ran out of time.

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How cultured. Last time I was in Paris I watched Wales v France and then got pissed. Pretty much the same thing right?

This always cheers me up.

Raoul dufy?

Matisse - but I see where you're coming from.

Quote: roscoff @ September 8 2013, 4:17 PM BST

How cultured. Last time I was in Paris I watched Wales v France and then got pissed. Pretty much the same thing right?

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Well, it was the only gallery/museum we went to all week. We also spent a day at a rock music festival, and I must admit that the thought crossed my mind to go to a Paris St-Germain game.

Quote: Lazzard @ September 8 2013, 4:42 PM BST

Matisse - but I see where you're coming from.

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Hey, I guessed right. Scout's honour.

Quote: roscoff @ September 8 2013, 4:17 PM BST

Last time I was in Paris I watched Wales v France and then got pissed. Pretty much the same thing right?

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When? Did we win?

Quote: George Kaplan @ September 8 2013, 11:31 PM BST

Hey, I guessed right. Scout's honour.

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Boats in a harbour through a shuttered window painted with staggering incompetency - it's usually Dufy.

Nah, that's a painting of his open fridge.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 9 2013, 12:18 AM BST

Boats in a harbour through a shuttered window painted with staggering incompetency - it's usually Dufy.

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You dissin' Matisse, bruv?

Quote: Horseradish @ September 6 2013, 8:53 PM BST

Now that was a sad story.

Poor woman.

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Ironically, the tourist response to this dodgy piece of restoration has been phenomenal. They've begun charging a couple of euros to see the result, giving half to the church and half to the woman! She, I gather, gives most of it back. And they are marketing the new image to sell on the usual items (tea towels, mugs!). Probably prophylactics, too.

Not tacky at all!

Quote: Oldrocker @ September 8 2013, 11:52 PM BST

When? Did we win?

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About five years ago and no! If I remember we did have the first try but it was a bit down hill after that.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 9 2013, 12:18 AM BST

Boats in a harbour through a shuttered window painted with staggering incompetency

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I'll pretend I didn't hear that....

Aside from the question of how incompetent these works allegedly are, one terrible consequence of such styles is that today, we must endure a plethora of contemporary artists producing debased naive seaside images. Bad copies of deliberately naive originals. And they're usually hung with depressing predictability in people's bathrooms.

Alfred Wallis has a lot to answer for.

Quote: Nogget @ September 9 2013, 9:32 AM BST

Aside from the question of how incompetent these works allegedly are, one terrible consequence of such styles is that today, we must endure a plethora of contemporary artists producing debased naive seaside images. Bad copies of deliberately naive originals. And they're usually hung with depressing predictability in people's bathrooms.

Alfred Wallis has a lot to answer for.

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And what's wrong with this?

Quote: roscoff @ September 9 2013, 9:41 AM BST

And what's wrong with this?

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I prefer empty canvases to a lot of the work hanging in bathrooms.