A quiet week.

After being a bit crook last week, I've had a real quiet one this week. Work and not much else. Today is ANZAC day here is Australia. A public holiday, but yep, I'm off to work. ANZAC day is always quiet at work so fingers crossed I'll finally get into my Turner book. I basically know the broad strokes of his story but I hope to get a few details into my memory bank. He is my favourite and I know that is a hard thing to pinpoint but no other work gets me like his. I don't like photo-realism in painting. I reckon you should just go take a photo. Sure I get the talent and patience it would take to achieve the results but for me, it just seems a waste. I like vibe. I like atmosphere. I like it when you can look at it and imagine yourself there. Not in a wanky art way, but my yardstick is always that if I walk past a painting, it suggests that it doesn't grab me. If I involuntarily stop to linger, then it works for me. I'm not into fancy wording or similes or hyperbole or adjectival diarrhoea. If I like it, i like it. No need to analyse. Suspend your Art Critic Brain at the door and you'll find your enjoyment much more easy to come by. 

 Sorry for this early-moring incoherent paragraph. Forgive me. I'm getting up now for coffee number 2. That should make me a bit more lucid. ha

 Have a top day!

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