User talk:Wjblacklock

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William James Blacklock
Hello, Wjblacklock, and thanks for making a contribution to the William James Blacklock article. Nobody else had done anything to it since I created it in August and I was wondering if anyone had noticed it at all!

I thought I'd just drop you a note about the fact that I reverted one of your edits. You changed "His work was likened to that of William Mulready" to "His work was unique and ground breaking", a change which I have undone. I thought I would explain why.

"Unique" can probably be applied to any artist who is not engaged in deliberate forgery or imitation. So I don't really think that it adds much to the factual content of the article.

"Ground breaking" is one of those terms which authors sometimes use to try to make someone appear important or significant without actually stating anything specific about what they did. In a similar way, other editors describe people as "renowned", or "important", etc. In writing the article I tried to use facts to communicate his importance instead of making unspecific assertions.

The other factor to consider when editing Wikipedia is that it is very important to cite reliable references to back up the facts you are adding. The comparison with Mulready's work comes directly from the excellent biography of the artist at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2526 (I intended the [1] at the paragraph end to apply to the whole paragraph). Please feel free to add further facts, but you must also include references to your sources. If you need help with the rather cumbersome syntax for adding these, do feel free to drop me a note on my user page.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia and I hope you enjoy collaborative writing and working together on building this reference work. Best regards -- Hebrides (talk) 19:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Paul B (talk) 12:42, 19 June 2010 (UTC)==Blacklock== Many artists may be said to have been proto-Pre-Raphaelite in some way. Christoper Newell, who I know personally, is probably not the main expert on PR landscape, though he is certainly very knowledgable. That would be Allen Staley, though I'm no fan of his tedious writings. The fact is that we have a ridiculously long list already, since virtually every Victorian artist gets linked by someone or other to the PRB. There is simply no point in adding names willy-nilly. There are a number of artists who are generally acknowledged as precursors, such as John Rogers Herbert, William Mulready and William Dyce. None of these appear in the list, because that is not its purpose. In any case the PRB were not essentially landscape painters. Landscape as such was a genre of associated artists. Paul B (talk) 11:25, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * You are not making any sense at all. The article should give a reasonable overview not promote fringe claims and make excessive claims for very minor and largely obscure artists. You do not even cite your claims. If you have references to the writings of Nicholas Eastaugh that support your points then provide them, but they are best placed in the Blacklock article, since the artist has almost no presence in mainstream literature on the PRB. It looks to me as though Blacklock's style is closest to the Norwich School of Crome and Cotman, and only tangentally similar to the work of the PRB. Paul B (talk) 11:45, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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Don't think I don't appreciate Blacklock's work. It's beautiful and very subtle. But I think you make some insupportable claims about his influence, for example you say that Blacklock's painting of Haddon Hall influenced Millais' A Huguenot, and that it contains huguenot figures. I can only see a couple of figures in modern (Victorian) dress, and the style of the lanscape is in the picturesque tradition. It doesn't look like Millais' early work at all. Paul B (talk) 12:33, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * yes I know Anne Bacon, who has now retired. I'm afraid I don't know who you are, but I think it's a bit rich to be lectured on knowledge of art by someone who spells Cézanne with an S! I am actually an expert on the Pre-Raphaelites after all. Paul B (talk) 12:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

THe image will not confuse anyone as ling as it is properly captioned. Removing it is utterly bizarre, since it is actually a painting by this artist. Paul B (talk) 15:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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June 2010
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page User:Cyfal. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 18:12, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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