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What was wrong with Bob Ross?
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Bob Ross is the perfect Sunday painter.
No real hate from me though, I don't think he had many pretentions about being Avant garde or whatever, he just liked making his simple, pretty, little paintings and that was enough. However if someone was interested in learning about art, I would recommend Ross last even when it comes to landscape painting.
A side note, but Ross has a very underexamined view of landscape as a subject. These are postcards, but not much else. They do not engage with the history or problematics of landscape/painting, something which many art critics have written about even from a Marxist standpoint. It is art without history, which is not very interesting in the long run.
"Here's a happy little tree performing a happy little dialectical analysis on the bourgeois character of this happy little cloud exerting its state-sanctioned monopoly on violence over the top of this happy little proletarian mountaintop..."
I'd watch this