ART REVIEW Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth

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When I saw it this past weekend, I was greeted by a security guard charged to protect the staff from death threats.

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. (He was formerly a lobbyist and private equity boss, though you can still have an artistic disposition behind the desk: Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jeff Koons a commodities trader.) I can add — and perhaps I should shift here from the language of New York critics to Washington diplomats — that it’s not the sort of exhibition that would make a current M.F.A. student feel jealous or unsophisticated by comparison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/hunter-biden-exhibition-berges-gallery.html
 
BidenPresident said:
When I saw it this past weekend, I was greeted by a security guard charged to protect the staff from death threats.

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. (He was formerly a lobbyist and private equity boss, though you can still have an artistic disposition behind the desk: Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jeff Koons a commodities trader.) I can add — and perhaps I should shift here from the language of New York critics to Washington diplomats — that it’s not the sort of exhibition that would make a current M.F.A. student feel jealous or unsophisticated by comparison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/hunter-biden-exhibition-berges-gallery.html
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BidenPresident said:
When I saw it this past weekend, I was greeted by a security guard charged to protect the staff from death threats.

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. (He was formerly a lobbyist and private equity boss, though you can still have an artistic disposition behind the desk: Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jeff Koons a commodities trader.) I can add — and perhaps I should shift here from the language of New York critics to Washington diplomats — that it’s not the sort of exhibition that would make a current M.F.A. student feel jealous or unsophisticated by comparison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/hunter-biden-exhibition-berges-gallery.html
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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

I reached out to Sebastian Smee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post, to get his evaluation of Hunter Biden, artist.

Cillizza: Let's start simple: Is Hunter Biden's work any good, aesthetically speaking?
Smee: For me, not really.
Cillizza: How has the art world reacted to Hunter Biden the artist -- particularly given that he has no formal training as such?
Smee: Mostly, a shoulder shrug. A few people probably sniff the chance to make money from his notoriety. But for the most part, people with influence in the art world are looking at his work and thinking, "Nothing much to see here."
Cillizza: The New York Times last year described Biden's paintings as "leaning toward the surreal." Is that how you would describe them? Why or why not?
Smee: People sometimes say "surreal" when they mean random.
Cillizza: In an interview earlier this year with Artnet, Hunter Biden said he paints "to bring forth, what is, I think, the universal truth." What do you make of his work, seen through that light?
Smee: Not trying to be unkind but I'm not sure how interested I am at the moment in Hunter Biden's idea of universal truth.
I mean, give me a break. What is he? A Bodhisattva? A guru? He may have figured out some stuff for himself, and that's great. But if I'm searching for universal truths, there are other people I'll go to first.
Cillizza: Finish this sentence: Hunter Biden's work resembles the work of ____________." Now, explain.
Smee: "... a cafe painter."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/politics/hunter-biden-art-sale/index.html
 
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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

I reached out to Sebastian Smee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post, to get his evaluation of Hunter Biden, artist.

Cillizza: Let's start simple: Is Hunter Biden's work any good, aesthetically speaking?
Smee: For me, not really.
Cillizza: How has the art world reacted to Hunter Biden the artist -- particularly given that he has no formal training as such?
Smee: Mostly, a shoulder shrug. A few people probably sniff the chance to make money from his notoriety. But for the most part, people with influence in the art world are looking at his work and thinking, "Nothing much to see here."
Cillizza: The New York Times last year described Biden's paintings as "leaning toward the surreal." Is that how you would describe them? Why or why not?
Smee: People sometimes say "surreal" when they mean random.
Cillizza: In an interview earlier this year with Artnet, Hunter Biden said he paints "to bring forth, what is, I think, the universal truth." What do you make of his work, seen through that light?
Smee: Not trying to be unkind but I'm not sure how interested I am at the moment in Hunter Biden's idea of universal truth.
I mean, give me a break. What is he? A Bodhisattva? A guru? He may have figured out some stuff for himself, and that's great. But if I'm searching for universal truths, there are other people I'll go to first.
Cillizza: Finish this sentence: Hunter Biden's work resembles the work of ____________." Now, explain.
Smee: "... a cafe painter."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/17/politics/hunter-biden-art-sale/index.html
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Thanks. I read the Post and will look for Smee's other columns on art.
 
BidenPresident said:
When I saw it this past weekend, I was greeted by a security guard charged to protect the staff from death threats.

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. (He was formerly a lobbyist and private equity boss, though you can still have an artistic disposition behind the desk: Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jeff Koons a commodities trader.) I can add — and perhaps I should shift here from the language of New York critics to Washington diplomats — that it’s not the sort of exhibition that would make a current M.F.A. student feel jealous or unsophisticated by comparison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/hunter-biden-exhibition-berges-gallery.html
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BidenPresident said:
When I saw it this past weekend, I was greeted by a security guard charged to protect the staff from death threats.

Mr. Biden, though not trained as a painter, has been making art since childhood, and I can say that the show is more substantial than an amateur’s dabbling. (He was formerly a lobbyist and private equity boss, though you can still have an artistic disposition behind the desk: Paul Gauguin was a stockbroker, Jeff Koons a commodities trader.) I can add — and perhaps I should shift here from the language of New York critics to Washington diplomats — that it’s not the sort of exhibition that would make a current M.F.A. student feel jealous or unsophisticated by comparison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/design/hunter-biden-exhibition-berges-gallery.html
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lol.....
 
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