Which artist's or photographer's work do you dislike even though it is revered by others?
Popular artists and photographers you don't care for
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 1, 2024 4:12 AM |
Fernando Botero. His tacky work is all over Colombia, and it's all the same. Oh look, another great big fat person.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 31, 2024 1:57 AM |
Jean-Michel Basquiat. His art is unremarkable at best.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 31, 2024 1:58 AM |
Monet! It’s all so granny to me.
I also think some of Kahlo’s paintings are stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 31, 2024 2:12 AM |
Annie Liebowitz just points and clicks her camera at famous people.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 31, 2024 2:26 AM |
Sally Mann just points and clicks her camera at her family and includes just enough nudity to get attention.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 31, 2024 3:16 AM |
R5 She was the first who came to my mind.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 31, 2024 3:36 AM |
Richard Prince (the Poseur)
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2024 4:53 AM |
Annie Liebovitz's stuff is just gimmicky, IMO.
Agree about Monet, but I love MAnet.
Don't care for Renoir's stuff that much.
The Thinker (Rodin) is overrated.
Picasso: not my cup of tea. And I do like abstract art.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2024 4:57 AM |
Salvador Dali's work is technically brilliant, but insists too much on its cleverness of execution and ideas. Not for me.
Magritte's surrealism however is quite as clever but more deadpan, more based somewhat in reality, and I enjoy and admire his work a lot.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 31, 2024 5:12 AM |
Andrew Wyeth is so bleak and depressing.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 31, 2024 5:20 AM |
I enjoy Annie Liebovitz's work when flipping through a magazine, but I wouldn't consider it "art" or worthy of a coffee table book.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 31, 2024 4:01 PM |
Edward Hopper's work can be bleak and depressing, but I love his stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 31, 2024 4:18 PM |
Robert Mapplethorpe. There was a time when the transgressive subject matter was genuinely interesting, but there's nothing that exceptional about his use of lighting or composition. Although some of the flower photos are striking.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 31, 2024 4:26 PM |
Speaking of Liebowitz, I saw an episode of Will and Grace the other night with Glenn Close doing a character based on her. She was pretty funny.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 31, 2024 4:31 PM |
Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Simply awful.
I could do what they did and I have NO artistic ability.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 31, 2024 4:36 PM |
What interests me about Picasso is the extent to which his style evolved across his life.
An art historian friend tells me that Picasso is so revered because the history of twentieth-century art, at least through the 1950s, was largely written around MoMA’s collection.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 31, 2024 4:40 PM |
I forget Anne Geddes was a thing. Very 1990s.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 31, 2024 4:51 PM |
Jackson Pollock. Sorry but a hyperactive toddler denied Ritilan could create such a masterpiece. And you could buy it off them for a juice box and some animal crackers.
R17, early Picasso shows he was a talented artist, before he entered his abstract period.
R18, I agree.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 31, 2024 4:55 PM |
I never understood the appeal of Mark Rothko.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 31, 2024 5:42 PM |
Yoko Ono
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 31, 2024 5:44 PM |
R19 also William Wegman, the guy who used to photograph dogs in drag, was popular around the same time.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 31, 2024 5:45 PM |
Miro
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 31, 2024 5:56 PM |
Thomas Kinkade owns this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 31, 2024 6:14 PM |
I like Mark Seliger's magazine portraits, but his art photography makes me wince.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 31, 2024 8:28 PM |
Keith Haring, never understood his stick fingers dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 1, 2024 2:37 AM |
Patrick Nagel. They all looked alike but everywhere in the 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 1, 2024 4:12 AM |