Monday, August 15, 2005

0036 National Gallery Comments

Rating: 2.1

A ‘School of..’ painting, it’s sometimes on display,
sometimes in the ‘Secondary Collection’; rather like
its subject, it’s subject to circumstances
beyond its own control. But this is no pupil’s homage
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Michael Shepherd
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Max Reif 16 August 2005

When I read you're poems I usually feel I've had a meal! Substance. Something to chew, swallow, digest, be nourished by. I love your last line. Not sure if you need the 2 before it. A 'secondary collection' painting...brings to mind a trip I made to Louisville, Kentucky's 'small bigcity' art museum, not world-renowned masterpieces but '2nd tier' art, some regional, that was art nonetheless, treasures all the more because I hadn't already seen 100 pictures of them.

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Poetry Hound 16 August 2005

I enjoyed the ride. Very prose-like.

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Uriah Hamilton 15 August 2005

You seemingly have a combined love of art and poetry.

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