Mark Thorson > wrote in :

> Kinda hard to separate the artist from the art, in this
> case.

And in other cases?

> Mediocre compared to what?

Rubens, Vermeer, Carravaggio, even the impressionists.

> I've read criticism
> which called his style very "architectural", which seems
> to be correct. You don't see many people in his art,
> and when you do, they aren't very well drawn. The
> buildings and the trees, however, are drawn with a
> high level of technical skill and realism. His sense
> of color was good, too. Too bad he was so determined
> to be a fine artist rather than an architect. He might
> have become a decent architect.

Or even as Norman Spinrad suggested in his Iron Dream, a science-ficti9on
illustrator ;-)

Coulda shoulda woulda...

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