The art makes the man

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-16-2011, 10:55

Originally Posted by Populus Romanus

He looks like a fish.

You are what you eat.

**Adrian II** · 07-17-2011, 01:58

Originally Posted by JuJuBee

I like portraits as such.

Same here: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas...

AII

**A Nerd** · 07-17-2011, 04:17

Same here:

Something about the 2 dimensions and the sense of depression with which it is painted is very appealing to me. Speaking strictly with the lack of knowledge I have for Puritan art/portrait.

**naut** · 07-21-2011, 13:15

Art? Art? ART?

"Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."