@philebus:

From Ye Olde Recently Locked Thread:

[quote]...but invoking Godwin's Law would make it fun again - but I'm damned if I can see a way to do that in this debate.[/quote]

You're not thinking it through hard enough - this one's actually very easy to do.

Without bringing up the whole "what is art" claptrap, I did want to sneak in one thing, that would satisfy your desire quite perfectly:

Guess who went to art school and eventually dropped out before becoming a world-threatening megalomaniac?

(Seems they told him he wasn't a real artist either. Probably got laughed at by all the real artists who were busily using 3D Studio Canvas and stuff.)

See his works for yourself.

Heh.  Churchill referred to him as a "House Painter", which gave the impression he was the guy who came along to slap magnolia on yer walls.  Goes to show that spin was around even then.

Having seen a couple of his paintings, I didn't think they were too bad at all.  That's not to say I liked anything about what he stood for, though.

I daresay he would have enjoyed using poser - it's so simple and fun!

Dave Lister?  John Lennon?

A quick Google Image search turned up plenty of paintings by the artist in question.  He could swing the linear perspective pretty well.  Dunno if they're good paintings.  :unsure:  Personally, I prefer the stuff from the Entartete Kunst exhibit.  Got distracted for a bit, looking at pictures by Grosz and Kirchner and Beckmann and Kandinsky.

lister woulda been a natural for poser, but did ya see red dwarf 9, where they went back to earth? horrorshow!  grosz was one of the last dadaists and first german expressionists.  speaking as an art critic, his work is still too intense for many, as is freud's (RIP).

Grosz's Ecce Homo is one of my favorite comic books.  :laugh:  He is rather intense, not to say grotesque, at times, but in spite of his often grim subject matter his work is inventive and delightful.  Ditto for some of Beckmann.

Dang, I wish I had enough room in this place to diddle around with painting again.  I love computer graphics, but in many ways no program can compare to just working with paint.  Sigh.

Edit: Aha.  Punctuation trouble.  If the comma goes there, then it should go there, too.  But then the sentence reads like something from the Victorian era, so best to drop both of them.