Yes not No

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Frosty Morning

Oil Painting on Panel

Private Collection

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In the art world the matter of taste (or preference), is an abiding question. Almost every conversation about art touches on what can be the contentious and emotive question of personal taste.

Yet, having a debate about matters of taste is essentially a complete non-starter, as no divergence of opinion on such a non-rational matter can ever be resolved. 

Nevertheless, it's as well to own up to one's own taste, as it is a vital part of the 'know-oneself' business. For what it's worth, here's an indication of my own personal preferences :

Yes not No

(A-Z)

Fra Angelico not Frank Auerbach

Pieter Brueghel the Elder not Francis Bacon

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio not Giorgio de Chirico

Gerard David not Salvador Dali

Jan van Eyck not Tracy Emin

Piero della Francesca not Lucian Freud

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes not Alberto Giacometti

Hans Holbein not Damien Hirst

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres not Leiko Ikemura

Gwen John not Augustus John

 Kitagawa Utamaro not Jeff Koons

Leonardo da Vinci not Roy Lichtenstein

Hans Memling not Piet Mondrian

 Aert van der Neer not Barnett Newman

Maria van Oosterwijck not Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Nicolas Poussin not Jackson Pollock

Enguerrand Quarton not Qu Leilei

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn not Mark Rothko

Ivan Shishkin not Frank Stella

Joseph Mallord William Turner not Cy Twombly

Paolo Uccello not Euan Uglow

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez not Victor Vasarely

Joseph Wright not Andy Warhol

Xie He not Jean Xceron

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko not Jack Butler Yeats

Zhang Zeduan not Jan Zrzavý

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In which painting does this architectural detail occur, and who painted it?

(The answer will be in the next posting.)

And here's the answer from the last posting - 

'A Modern Olympia.' by Paul Cezanne. 
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

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