Jack Vettriano, Why Does The Art Establishment Look Down On His Work?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24173892

[emmie]

no idea, one of my all time favourite artists, have many of his prints, some i love to pieces a number grace the walls..

[emmie]

they call him popular, so he is, i would buy more of his work if i could, lots of snobbery in the art world.

[Prudie]

Don't understand it either, jealousy is the likely reason - and this from people who con us into thinking an unmade bed or pile of bricks is deep and meaningful. I have a copy of the Billy Boys. Love his stuff.

[ummmm]

I don't like his work very much. I find it quite tacky.

Each to their own though, he's still talented.

[DrFilth]

emmie > lots of snobbery in the art world. <

correct

[emmie]

prudie, Billy Boys, my favourite piece, better than many of the so called established artists, i wouldn't put a piece of Lucien Freud or Salvadore Dali on my walls, nor that tacky of all over exposed piece the Mona Lisa.

[ummmm]

I love Dali...

[paddywak]

Perhaps because people can actually look at his work,see what what he means and like it.When you see some of the crap "The Establishment" regard as art it makes you wander.I remember laughing out loud a few years back when a cleaner at a gallery dumped a load of black bin bags which turned out to have been the centre piece of the exhibition, her comment being "It looked like a pile of rubbish to me" is a lot closer to the truth then these people like to admit.

[DrFilth]

emmie each to their own i love dali

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg

[DrFilth]

one very special person

http://www.artakiane.com/

[FredPuli43]

Too popular with non-artists, too accessible, some of his works are conversation pieces, which is not a favoured style,nothing in his work is ground-breaking.

[Prudie]

Dali was THE poster of choice to have on our student bedroom walls.

[emmie]

prudie, i have never liked Dali, nor much of Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, i do like Gustav Klimpt, and Turner and Constable, it is a question of taste, however some of the art world is so up it's own backside it will buy a pile of poo and call it art, don't ya know darlinks...

[DrFilth]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/arts-feature/8939181/at-last-the-snobbish-tate-has-finally-overcome-its-distaste-for-l-s-lowry/

[Sqad]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&;hl=en-gb&tbm=isch&q=russell+flint+spanish+ladies&revid=221191703&sa=X&ei=OEY9Up3qIsjW7QbU0YDwAQ&amp;ved=0CDUQ1QIoAw&;dpr=1&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=672

I will stick to what I enjoy..

[doctordb]

Maybe because some of his works have been proven to be copies. I find his work bland and a bit 'Athena poster' in style.
As has already been said, each to their own.

[DrFilth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

[Prudie]

Yet stuff like this gets to hang in the Tate, obviously I accept I don't understand art
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/fontana-spatial-concept-waiting-t00694

[emmie]

DF, not my cup of cha at all. I don't much like Breugel, or Heironymus Bosch find it rather threatening. Not to say that it's bad art, just don't like it.

[doctordb]

Drfilth, bosch's work terrified me as a child. It still gives me the creeps now.