Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic:
Hunter Biden’s Art Is So Bad It Shouldn’t Even Be Worth $1,000
Sebastian Smee, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for the Washington Post, says Hunter’s paintings aren’t all that great.
In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cillizza, Smee was asked outright: “Is Hunter Biden’s work any good, aesthetically speaking?”
“For me, not really,” Smee told him. “I’ve only seen it in reproduction, so I’m sure I’m missing a lot: texture, layering, detail. Parts of them look technically impressive. But the style is eclectic in a way that makes his work feel neither one thing nor another.”
“Most great artists, whatever style of art they make, have been trying to make art all their lives,” Smee added. “They are fully devoted to what they do. To me, Biden seems a bit of a dabbler.”
“Finish this sentence: Hunter Biden’s work resembles the work of …” Chris Cillizza asked Smee.
“… a cafe painter,” he responded. “By which I mean, you see a certain kind of art in coffee shops, and some of it is OK and a lot of it is bad, and sometimes it’s surprisingly good. But you wouldn’t, unless you were related to the artist, spend more than $1,000 on it.”
Smee assessed that the art seems to serve no purpose other than as a therapeutic exercise but insists that “if I were a museum curator, I would struggle to find compelling reasons to share it with the public.”
The art world’s reaction to Biden’s ‘art work’ art world, according to Smee, it’s garnered mostly “a shoulder shrug.”
“A few people probably sniff at 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.’”
Approximate value of only $1000, yet it is going to, confidentially, sell for multi millions of dollars. The person who fell off the turnip truck was not yours truly; however, the MSM all seem to have taken a fall of that turnip truck and suffered massive brain damage…that is if they actually have any such thing as a brain.
As for me, I much prefer…