As a painter, this claim is vastly overblown. Sure, there are some slight, minuscule examples, but many renowned and famous landscape artists have made the same mistakes—yet I don’t see this same level of criticism drawn for their works.
This statement seems to be just one of those self-perpetuating things people repeat ad infinitum because they heard others say it (without a clue as to why).
It’s simply that he wasn’t amazing enough at the form of painting he specialized in to stand out among hundreds of applicants like him, so he didn’t get into art school. He could’ve painted what was cool at the time but chose to be one of a million derivative post card artists, it’s like he applied to art school with one of those spray paint galaxy paintings.
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u/fimbuIvetr 9d ago
He clearly has an issue with perception.