Culture Vultures Gallery meet ideas?

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I was nosing at the upcoming exhbitions at the Tate and noticed they have a Rousseau exhibition coming up. Wondered if it might be a good one for a meet? Any one have any other suggestions.

Rousseau Exhibiton details.

The gothic nightmares looks good as well.

Gothic Nightmares

Darn - just noticed the gothic one os in liverpool

I like the look of Outsider Art

Wot no Jack Vettriano in Outsider Art SD? Surely he is the ultimate laughing all the way to the bank outsider
I'd be pretty keen on any of these especially that loon Fuseli...

I am looking to take dd to the Rousseau exhibition on November 12

In london on 27th November, want to spend the day at exhibitions.

FF I'd like to come too

Ah fairyfly, you mean the day after the night before, you're forgetting about the hangovers you will all have

True Cam but i will have to postpone my hangover. It will be told to sod off until i get home. It is too much of a perfect chance. I also have to write a review of a Gallery and if i'm not careful i will be making it up.

Do you fancy it SD?

Yes, I'd love to come with you! I promise I won't spout wanky ponce talk. I'll be too busy sweating.

Oh please do, i need all the help i can get.

Fabulous.

SD, there is an interesting and plausible defence of Vettriano as the new Edward Hopper in of all things Alexander McCall Smith's Sunday Afternoon Philosophy Club. So adjust away. I was astonished to hear how extensively he is despised in modish art circles. It is the crime of the century to be on coasters apparently.

I haven't really got a Vettriano print!

In that case Marina all those French impressionists have had it - aprons, teatowels, oven gloves......

Well exactly cam...
Yah, you got me SD you rascal. I will now hide inside my Milletts special Tracy Emin Everyone I have Ever Toasted Marshmallows With and won't come out

I have got a Laughing Cavalier tabard though

Here's one critic/artist's take on Vettriano!
Singing Butler

I quite like Vettriano as wall decoration, but there's no intellectual content there. And the skill level is about the same as a Ladybird book illustrator (though considerably less than Aitchison or Tunnicliffe)

Also, its the Peter Scott effect, isnt it - I despise Vettriano, so Im an intellectual art critic etc

cam - most avant garde art people do despise the impressionists. you have to be quite courageous to admit to liking them in certain circles. "monet was only an eye" etc

couldn't really think where to put this but as you lot were on in I thought I'd stick this here (hope you don't mind!).

I was looking at something on the science museum site and I noticed they have the most fantastic print library - great for Xmas presents. It also includes some of the old railway posters - I love the old Norman Wilkinson ones and the GWR posters are fantastic.

But nightynight, the impressionists once were the avant garde - Colombe d'Or etc

If there's one thing I despise its snobbery about art

I know Cam, I find it funny. Especially as Monet was clearly the forerunner of much later abstract work.

I used to work in the public arts sector and got so utterly fed up with the snobbery and elevation of what was clearly completely devoid of meaning at the expense of work which actually meant something to the public at large (and no, I don't mean the likes of Vettriano I'm afraid!)
The final straw came in an interview for a curatorship when I was handed a container containing milk-bottles with pink nipples stuck on them. 'You're faced with an angry city council member demanding to know why public money should fund this kind of work. What do you say to them?' The fact that I burst out laughing at the panel didn't stand me in good stead for the job. I just couldn't bring myself to talk 'art-bol*ks.