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harrowing_3

Just one more technical query when I'm on corals.co.uk which button do I press to find a winner. :mad: :mad: :mad: [/quote]

The EXIT button;)

oql61

harrowing wrote: »

I KNEW we prepared our cabbage incorrectly...

Amazing though, you'd think it was a photograph.

When you see these Dutch and Spanish still-lifes up close it literally takes your breath away: the droplets of water on the grapes, the bloom on a peach, the irridescence of the feathers of pheasant ... oh no, now I'm doing a Sewell!

amistupid

oql61 wrote: »

This sort of thing is to my taste:



Still-life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber

1600 Sanchez Cotan

Oh dear! If this is your "John o' Groats" mine's in "Land's End"

harrowing_3

Absoluuuuutely stupendous madam

oql61

He was at the Courtauld Institute where my daughter is studying History of Art.

amistupid

harrowing wrote: »

I KNEW we prepared our cabbage incorrectly...

Amazing though, you'd think it was a photograph.

Some would argue that is what lessens it's worth. Technically brilliant but lacks real emotion.

amistupid

amistupid wrote: »

My abstract work was described as architectual "only fit for display in the smallest room in the house"

However the Cotan would look good in your new kitchen Olivia.

amistupid

Hardly an original opinion, but the greatest by far.

amistupid

Another of my favourites

oql61

amistupid wrote: »

Some would argue that is what lessens it's worth. Technically brilliant but lacks real emotion.

Actually, I disagree. The verisimilitude itself is what I find so moving. The knobbliness of the cucumber is almost 'beyond' lifelike. I love that.