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By Sali.ie Morgan
Special to the Rappahannock News
Artist Robin Purnell is dedicated to and very passionate about preserving the craft of painting.
“My reason for existing is to create beautiful, moving objects that will give something to mankind,” she says.
On Friday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m., as part of the Second Friday at the Library Series sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC), Purnell will use slides of her work and those of other artists to explore the questions, what constitutes beauty, what separates good from “bad” art, what purpose does art serve in our society?
Purnell also will share examples of what she describes as the emptiness of much contemporary art, work that relies on shock tactics, or work that is so detached it doesn’t communicate anything of value.
She agrees with art critic Robert Hughes who commented that, “There has been a tragic depreciation in the traditional skills of painting and drawing, the nuts and bolts of the profession. We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need is more slow art, that doesn’t get its message across in 10 seconds, that
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