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Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth
Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny
It’s a telling contrast with a real artist like Jenny Saville, who gets completely covered with paint like a naughty three-year-old, let alone Van Gogh, who ate the stuff. He must have moved about a bit, flicking and pouring the fizzy greenish blues, hot orange, lime, mixing them as if making cocktails. I have more respect for Ronnie Wood and Bob Dylan who attempt figurative paintings: you can mock but at least they take a risk in doing the kind of art people are quick to judge.
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