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His work is much better in person than a image printed in some book or webpage
Exactly, there's no comparison. What works in a large gallery doesn't necessarily work on a living room wall or a wikipedia page and isn't of course meant to.
looks like two year old graffiti. Unlike Pollock, no detail to discover.
That's pretty well the opposite of what it is; his work, especially the Lepanto Cycle is rich in context, even the bleaker images in the series. It does help to know the literary and historical illusions he's making, and of course it works on the emotions as it's meant to.
only the artist and a few others get the statement. There's an elitism in it that I find repulsive.
By that logic, you could only have art, literature, music, film that is accessible to the least educated. There is mass market output, even a huge amount of it, and there is more challenging output. Life would be poorer if all film was Netflix pap and no Alain Resnais or Terence Davies at all.
Those who find challenging cultural output "repulsive" can always look at Maxfield Parrish or watch M jak Milosc They are both good in their own way.
