I already named several painters I like. You can't judge a man's taste based on his dislike of one painter. You still haven't said a single reason why Guston is worth looking at.

I dislike Guston so much precisely because i've seen so many. You can't go the the NGA or the Whitney or MOMA without running into 12 of them. The National Gallery just installed 2 on their concourse.

For the record, you're the only one talking about textbook theory nonsense. I was just comparing him to his contemporaries. You've obviously read way too much BS art theory to know a damn thing about painting. I have a feeling that you neither paint nor buy paintings. You probably keep art books out on your coffee table and go to openings without your checkbook.

I actually did give the type of beauty i was specifically talking about in this instance, but you seemed to have been too set off by the beauty buzzword to care: design, control, handling of color. Believe it or not, these things matter in the art world again. I'll leave the theoretical stuff to people who give a rats ass.

You seem to be so sure about my taste and credentials, but what do you know about painting anyway? I'm a fan of Alex Kanevsky, Caio Fonseca, Kent Williams, Jeffrey Hein, and Geoffrey Johnson, and scores of others who you probably have never heard of. I like Low Brow art too, but maybe I'd just rather see artists who actually give a damn about what theyre doing rather than giving up serious painting to make some infantile statement about their childhood traumas.