Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 1992 16:29:39 -0400 
From: John Hamilton Slye <jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: FLAME: Liefeld Art(?)
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On 05-Oct-92 in Re: FLAME: Liefeld Art(?)    
user Doug Quarnstrom@hpfcso.F writes:
>In rec.arts.comics.misc, John Hamilton Slye <jsbr+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> 
>> I studied art history in high school; and so when I see a person drawn,
>> I like the subject to be in proportion! (NOTE: I don't like 20th century
>> "art" either)
> 
>Perhaps if you had gone onto college art history you could avoid
>making sweeping statements like, "I don't like 20th century art."

   Huh? Excuse me, but am I reading that someone is trying to show how
ignorant I am based on an opinion? I took AP Art History in high school,
it may not be a college class, but it's supposed to be representative of
one. In that class, I did not see one piece of 20th century art that I
liked. So I believe that this qualifies me to make a "sweeping
statement" (which is only my opinion) that I don't like 20th century
"art". (BTW when I'm referring to 20th century art, I mean the new "in"
styles that occurred this century. Anything which is drawn clean and
with a certain amount of realism and is true-to-form, I'm not including.)

    I would also have stated that I don't like the Rococo Period if it
had any bearing on the discussion at hand. (I don't like the pastel
colors and playful-with-no-meaning paintings that were done at the
time.) What I was referring to in my post was the angular and sketchbook
style of several comic book artists these days. (Mike Mignola & Rob
Liefield are good examples.)

    Sure there are people out there who like Picasso and Jackson Pollock
(?sp), but I don't. Whoever likes big white canvases painted "white",
IMHO, is pretty wacked in the head. But these are just my opinions. Now,
I'm not saying I don't like a certain amount of abstraction in art, my
favorite group of artists is the Post-Impressionists. (Van Gogh is my
favorite.) I personally get a lot of feeling out of their works and I
like the vibrant colors and the fluidity that occurs in Van Gogh's
works. (e.g. "Starry Night" - my favorite Van Gogh) But, I wouldn't want
to see a comic drawn that way, though it would be interesting to read.

    If you like 20th century art, fine, I don't. I believe that that
kind of abstraction distracts the reader from the story and makes it
difficult to figure out what's going on. (At least for me.) I enjoy the
art of Ron Lim and I thought the Infinity Gauntlet by Perez was
beautiful! IG was very pleasing to look at and read.

   I can't believe that out of my entire post all you could flame me for
was my opinion on 20th century art and the statement I made about Cable
in the Marvel Swimsuit Issue. There were tastier things to flame me for
in the post.

BTW, I received a 5 on the exam.



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