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RIP Brian Sewell... Whilst I never understood much of what he talked about, you couldn't help but enjoy that unmistakably upper class posh Edwardian accent.
I came to know of him via the Victor Lewis-Smith windups in the early 90s.
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Brian Sewell Dies on 14:32 - Sep 20 with 1952 views
'Brian Sewell's death was, sadly, a tawdry affair that provoked a profound sense of ennui, I'm afraid. I approached this death with real optimism, hoping for a note of surprise or a shock that would awaken meditation on the transcendent. However, I found it to be nothing short of derivative and, frankly, disappointing. It will please fans of his early work but is unlikely to feature among his best. 3 stars'. Quentin Bumjoy, Arts Supplement, Dungeons and Dragons Monthly
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
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Brian Sewell Dies on 14:45 - Sep 20 with 1936 views
'Brian Sewell's death was, sadly, a tawdry affair that provoked a profound sense of ennui, I'm afraid. I approached this death with real optimism, hoping for a note of surprise or a shock that would awaken meditation on the transcendent. However, I found it to be nothing short of derivative and, frankly, disappointing. It will please fans of his early work but is unlikely to feature among his best. 3 stars'. Quentin Bumjoy, Arts Supplement, Dungeons and Dragons Monthly
Yah, ebsolutely.
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Brian Sewell Dies on 14:47 - Sep 20 with 1934 views
Brian Sewell Dies on 08:35 - Sep 20 by johncharles
RIP Brian, he will be sorely missed. He was the antidote to Tracy Emin and Damien Hearst.
Not to mention Banksy.
Banksy: “Any fool who can put paint on canvas or turn a cardboard box into a sculpture is lauded. Banksy should have been put down at birth. It’s no good as art, drawing or painting. His work has no virtue. It’s merely the sheer scale of his impudence that has given him so much publicity.”
Hirst: “Were Hirst’s canvases the work of a late teenager, we might take the random lines around the skulls as a clever allusion to the measuring-points of a sculptor of Canova’s generation, or as an illusion of cracked glass, and forgive the ugly clumsiness of inexperienced execution; but Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than this rough daubing, with which he degrades his master, Bacon.”
Emin: “The sane man must ask whether he should give any of this pretentious stuff the time of day in aesthetic terms when it seems that this self-regarding exhibitionist is ignorant, inarticulate, talentless, loutish and now very rich.”
No, I won't be changing that poll. I leave it there because it allows me to be uncharitable of people who have died, when I think truths have to be faced. But in the case of both Thatcher and Mandela, they have claim to having made significant positive change in the world, while they are also often severely condemned for things that they did.
I don't see how Brian Sewell qualifies on either account. Why do you dislike him so much?
I was thinking of translating Bazza's post for you, but I won't bother now. You can read. You figure it out.
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