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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3610000, member: 57463"]Right. She was pretty. And the coin is shiny. But the building in the background was just thrown in to fill space. We say that numismatics is about "art" but having had college classes in art history and design studio, I do not find much that could hang in a museum. Rather, coin designers seem to be talented amateurs. Maybe the problem is the "final edit" done by the Mint where the work of a talented artist is dumbed down.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed. Simple but compelling. Not bad at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As much as I like Switzerland as a place, having been there once for five days, the coins remind me of the words of Frank Lloyd Wright that classical buildings stand at attention clicking their heels. Helmut Lehmann-Haupt in <i>Art Under a Dictatorship</i> made the same point: the fascists and communists both endorsed variants of classicism because they were bound by rules.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3610000, member: 57463"]Right. She was pretty. And the coin is shiny. But the building in the background was just thrown in to fill space. We say that numismatics is about "art" but having had college classes in art history and design studio, I do not find much that could hang in a museum. Rather, coin designers seem to be talented amateurs. Maybe the problem is the "final edit" done by the Mint where the work of a talented artist is dumbed down. Agreed. Simple but compelling. Not bad at all. As much as I like Switzerland as a place, having been there once for five days, the coins remind me of the words of Frank Lloyd Wright that classical buildings stand at attention clicking their heels. Helmut Lehmann-Haupt in [I]Art Under a Dictatorship[/I] made the same point: the fascists and communists both endorsed variants of classicism because they were bound by rules.[/QUOTE]
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