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For a time during my period as a professional student years ago I was a fine arts, sculpture major. Now this is actually embarrassing because this artwork is almost corny in its use of over sentimentalism, but I like Terry Redlins work.  Terry, if you sell something from this please send Dave $10. Steve
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Rockdoc:
Art is one of the most subjective subjects on Earth. But I find Kernan and many of the other sporting artists of the 1930s through the mid 1950s to be conceptually romantic rather than corny. Their scenes depicted idyllic times and golden moments of sport to the audience, whether they were real or not. That was enough. And... they represent fond memories of a more wholesome world from my youth.
Reality artists tend to bore me. There is a point at which the stuff might as well be a photograph. But each to his or her own. My heart is in the art of the old days, however. My dog likes it better, too.
This from a fellow who spent most of his working life around some of the greatest advert and editorial artists the mid 20th Century ever produced.
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When I was a little boy, before I could read, I used to sit for hours looking at old sporting magazines, old Stoeger catalogs, even old shot shell boxes and admire the art work. Those old pictures of a man with his dog, sitting by a fireplace, and reflecting on the past hunt while smoking a pipe were neat. This old fogey will have his favorite pipe with him on opening day of pheasant season this week end. 
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Rockdoc's " this artwork is almost corny in its use of over sentimentalism" hits a chord with me. It reminds me of the illustrations on calendars from our village general store long ago.
Many years later I really got interested in "sporting art" from looking at some of the Old Masters in books and galleries, particularly engraving and paintings of Peter Bruegel the Elder.
Not that I became cultured all of a sudden (nor am I now) but it was the detail, of what I knew as a country boy, the dogs and game, as in his great The Hunters in the Snow, January and February, dated 1565.
Bruegel must have been a hunter, it seems to me.
One shouldn't disparage as I have because who is to say what art is art? The first canon of aesthetics is interest, and generations made the sentimental surpassingly popular.
However pleasing to the eye and heart, most art is bad art. What counts most for me is originality, thought and craft--- what took the eye of a country boy when he got to the cities.
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