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Pawel Sladek

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Syd Edward

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I believe it might be but the photo is very poor and indistinct. Where is your message ?

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Alan Green

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What a mess. The trees are meant to act as a proscenium, but they're in the wrong place. The foreground is meant to lead into the middle distance in Claudian style but there's a load of brightly-painted rubble in the way and the only lead-in is the statue on the right which is in great condition compared to the rest of the scene. There are three side screens used but there is no connection between them, there is no human activity, and no far distance hills. The ruins suggest the artist has read Gilpin but completely overcooked it by ignoring the "tasteful" requirement. There, all that Arts Degree education finally earning its keep. Overall, it's suggestive of an amateur painter trying too hard, and I wouldn't want it on my wall; there are thousands of better paintings in the gallery on this site.
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Michael Edwards

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It is a hoax - who would want to paint a ruin - where do you lean the ladder?

Alan Bickley

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Probably a plastic frame Sylvia to go with the dreadful art!, nicely observed alang...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Nothing wrong with the frame that a nice slosh of gilt wouldn't fix - curlicues and swags - LOVELY. The painting is an oddity - if art speaks to you, I wonder what this is trying to say? Plainly, it hasn't communicated its charms to those commenting on it here - nor, I fear, to me. (In passing, I do sometimes wonder if our dismissal of works shown here in the forum by unknown artists isn't a compensation, in small degree, for the remarks we might like to make on some work in the gallery but feel constrained by courtesy or sympathy from actually uttering - but moving rapidly on.....) Yes, it could be an intention to depict Roman ruins, although the architecture, such as it is, looks more Italianate than Roman. It's also vaguely familiar - and it seems cluttered, as though cut down from a bigger canvas. But I just can't "read" it - and suspect it's a mass-produced tourist picture of an idealized landscape. But who knows? Not us lot, that's for sure.....