Controversial Paintings

Controversial? Said woman has not be out enough or visited art galleries where artist actually EXPRESS FEELINGS rather than imitate.

Just make the art you want to male. Defining it automatically limits it and if someone doesn't agree with your label, they're likely to call you out pn it.

she needs to visit the vagina knitter.

Melissa I almost had that one forgotten :)

Controversial Paintings are just about the only kind of paintings I do.
Welcome to the love hate club!

LOL Melissa

I would hire that woman as your publicity agent.

Any relation to Dave Van Ronk?

Can't see what's so controversial about it. Perhaps she meant that she did not like the way that it was rendered. That is just a big mouth speaking her own opinion.

The person who purchased it, and then returned it, is the spineless one.

mebbe the guy who bought it was the big mouthed woman's husband.....

Tha lady needs to take Socials Skills 101. I should take a refresher course,some times I forget and spout off and wish I could recall my words. So I suppose you could cut her some slack. Ya think? P.S., The image is kinda cool, I love her teeth !

Marlene...

If that's the case, he did the right thing. Who wants to hear her jawing about it day and night?

That piece is controversial? In what respect? I am impressed, though, that one viewer took the time and energy to express such a reaction. Most art gets looked at, passed over, and simply forgotten. That said, it sounds like that woman who expressed her disgust is uncomfortable with any image that goes beyond of bowl of fruit. And, yes, the fruit must be ripe and alive, not withered and near-death. Please! Move on...

Amen, Glenn!


sooooo..next question, have you sold it?

I really like this piece a lot but can't for the life of me figure out what was so controversial about it...maybe I'm missing something.

Controversial? Reading your description it only appears to me that a woman and a few others didn't like it. Nothing controversial as to make headlines in the art world.

The woman who objected to this painting identified herself and we talked about why it disturbed her so much. She is not at all foreign to art, being herself an artist, and musician. She claimed there was "something about it" that moved her deeply and scared her, which may have had nothing to do with the subject or rendition. The controversy was not her objection, it was in the discussion that took place following, and was never stated as something to make headlines. The point is not to judge her, but that the painting is a powerful image that can stir peoples emotions.

Jim, fourth cousin.

Marlene, not yet. $1,200 for the original, prints as per FAA. I live on a boat, getting ready for a world art tour, and this is one of the ones I a taking to show.

... and in defence of the guy who bought it and swapped it back. He is a friend who has bought several of my paintings and will no doubt buy more. He had his reasons. We are all friends who play music together and attend each other's parties. There is no reason to judge or speculate on anyone's psychological state.