Who are your favourite artists?
Art to me means painting
Pre Raphaelites my call
The posters in the 70s
We’d have upon our wall.
The brilliant vibrant colours
Bold romantic themes
Dreamy looking heroines
Broody armoured Knights.
The paintings bring back memories
Of distant student days
Of musty flats and long haired blokes
And girls in flowery clothes.
Impressive in their detail
The characters so strong
Rejecting muted colours
The dull restraint of old.
Love, beauty, tragedy
Their story always strong
Romantic and emotional
They had us in their pull.
These were the paintings
I loved in my youth.
I still love to study them
They have me in their thrall.
But sadly they no longer fit
In to our modern rooms
They wouldn’t look right in our house
Our cooler ‘Scandi’ style.
But as for favourite artists
I will always say
Three cheers for the Brotherhood
And those who followed on.
Andrew Green's Poems 