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These paintings are not comparable without breaking down the very yardstick you were using to compare them. Art is not a school assignment, and this mindset is fundamentally misguided.

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Megha Lillywhite

@meghaverma_art

Aug 7, 2020

Haixia Liu, 1962, (left) paints Van Gogh more skillfully than Van Gogh (right). Should expose how overrated Van Gogh is.

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A thing these chuds never seem to grasp is that technical refinement is only done on top of established work. How do you refine a style that doesn't exist? Even then, has any copycat ever out-Hendrixed Hendrix or out-Van Goghed Van Gogh? And why should anyone care if they did?

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