Art obsession

When I was a kid I was hopeless art and nothing's really changed. Except that my obsession with other people's work had urged me to learn. I also didn't think you could learn, I thought it was one of those things you were just good at, until I read an interview with a famous artist who said something along the lines of everyone is an artist when they are children, we just stop doing it. Does good art inspire you to paint or does it put you off?

Just painting is hard enough but making it look like two things at once? I wouldn't know where to start.

 

 

 I've been to a couple of art galleries in the past week and a few paintings have caught my attention:

These are from top to bottom Penitent and Charity by  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

 

They just raise such empathy and pathos.

 

I'm going to cause a controversy here, I really don't think that modern art is capable of working on that level and don't think it takes as much skill. My own personal view is that much art shoudn't even be referred to as art; it takes neither skill nor imagination. Please remember this is just my own personal view and I don't seek to force it on anyone else!

 

Having said that I don't like all art becauseit's old. When I visited the Louvre they had some fantastic - take your breath away paintings.I walked around the corner and there was a huge gathering of people around one painting; the Mona Lisa.





I looked closely, far away and from every angle but I just didn't get, I could and can not figure out what the hype is. I'm a lover of landscapes,especially those with a road or path that leads off into the distance and promises new sights and new adventure.