Dear Damian
I take your point about taste. I am fine with anyone presenting work that is not to my taste but not in the context of just passing on seemingly automatically from a mailing list what many
apart from me find irritating. I know I was being judgmental, apologies for that, but it was because of the context.
Let a thousand flowers bloom by all means but don't stick them under my nose pointlessly and gratuitously and without argument. This forum is not going to be useful if it deteriorates into
a un-self-regulated free for all. Present arguments and images, those others perhaps do not like approve of or agree with, but we need some discretion, otherwise the audience/
participants will withdraw. There have to be some limits and standards or as we see every time these are ignored – there are mass requests to withdraw from the list.
Kind regards
Tom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damian Fennell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native American People" ... also models...for young students
> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:24:47 +0000
>
>
> Whilst I commend anyone who desires to uphold standards of
> appropriateness etc. on this forum, and as it happens I'm not
> personally crazy about the work posted in Sylvia's email, I do
> however feel that Tom's response was more a statement of personal
> taste than purely the principle of what is suitable to post.
>
> I agree that it is inappropriate to post bulk mails from other
> email networks as we can't choose to unsubscribe from it.
>
> However, this is an open drawing forum, and as subscribers to it we
> have to accept that some of the art content that is posted will
> not be to our individual taste.
>
> Perhaps I might suggest though that members refrain from including
> images in their postings, but insert a link to a webpage instead.
> That way the rest of us can opt to visit the webpage, or not,
> according to personal preference.
>
> all the best
>
> Damian Fennell.
>
>
> On 28 Feb 2008, at 18:00, Rachandspike wrote:
>
> > Sometimes, my faith in mankind is just fully reinstated!!
> >
> > BRAVO.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The UK drawing research network mailing list
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom McGuirk
> > Sent: 28 February 2008 16:55
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native American People"
> > ... also models...for young students
> >
> > Dear all...
> >
> > Apropos this mail (see below) I really feel that however well meaning, it is
> > an inappropriate use of this mailing list/forum for members to merely
> > forward without so much as comment or any
> > analysis, material from other mailing lists/networks which they have at
> > least had the choice of signing up to. I personally have no interest
> > whatsoever in reading about the dubiously titled:
> > Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale or their
> > phenomenal sales figures and am now going to have to look at Degas or
> > Schiele for a half an hour just to cleanse my
> > retinas and my visual memory of this awful onslaught. At the bottom of this
> > mail the original sender is offered the choice to unsubscribe, I on the
> > other hand have no defence against this
> > unwanted – chauvinistic and colonialist – overblown, offensive, illustration
> > masquerading as art, (the kind of thing that gives figurative art a bad name
> > – you can see my tolerance had been
> > over stretched :-) ) if I wish to keep receiving the, for the most part,
> > interesting contributions from the DR network. Please can we see some
> > discretion. I only have so much patience and
> > more relevantly so much web-mail in-box space. For the love of Geronimo
> > desist!! ?
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> >
> > Tom McGuirk
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Sylvia CORNET" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Howard Terpning, "Storyteller of the Native American People" ...
> > also models...for young students
> >> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:35 +0100
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Début du message réexpédié :
> >>
> >> De : "B & R Gallery" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>
> >> Répondre à : [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> Hi Sylvia,
> >>
> >> Earlier this month, Barbara and I took several friends and clients
> >> to the opening weekend of the Masters of the American West Fine
> >> Art Exhibition and Sale, held at the Autry National Center in Los
> >> Angeles. This event, recognized as the country’s most important
> >> Western art show, featured more than seventy nationally recognized
> >> contemporary artists. We got to meet many wonderful people and see
> >> a lot of incredible art. Total sales of $4.7 million set a Autry
> >> National Center record, so it was a very exciting and successful
> >> event. The exhibition is on-going until March 2. If you are in
> >> the Los Angeles area, we highly recommend that you see it.
> >>
> >> Particularly exciting was the sale of Howard Terpning’s Hard Trails
> >> Wore Out More Than Ponies for over $1.2 million. Howard Terpning
> >> also received the Thomas Moran Memorial Award for Painting, adding
> >> to a collection of accolades too numerous to list. At 79 years
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> >> preeminent Western artist of our time.
> >>
> >> Howard Terpning's limited editions are highly collectible, and we
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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