What would Brian Sewell say?

[Peter]

Courtroom sketch of "crypto-king":-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67125913

[Jaded]

"Imbecilic", I think. 

[Peter]

I think it would be very much along those lines!  It's certainly not what he would have called "painterly"!

[rogerzilla]

"Craiyon, draw me a man-onion hybrid"

[spesh]

I realise that courtroom sketches aren't meant to be on the same level as a Titian or van Dyke, but that one's so rough that I can certainly imagine Sewell rather archly enquiring if said sketch had been scrawled by the same elephant whose work he'd disparaged on an episode of That's Life in the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sewell#Art_criticism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arch-enemy-of-the-critics-stings-back-the-art-world-is-calling-for-brian-sewell-s-head-he-is-unfazed-1398973.html

[Peter]

Spesh, I remember that scene and I think you are being rather hard on the elephant!

[spesh]

Spesh, I remember that scene and I think you are being rather hard on the elephant!

Maybe, but I just couldn't imagine his plummy tones enunciating that the sketch must have been done, for example, by a masturbating chimp using its non-dominant hand...   

[Ian H]

Slight influence of German Expressionism, suggestion of multiple viewpoints might indicate a familiarity with Cubism.

[Peter]

Or an unfamiliarity with anatomy!  Cubists at least knew that the eyes should not be on the same level !

[Pingu]

More like influenced by Monkey Jesus.

[Regulator]

To be fair, Bankman-Fried is a bit freaky looking in real life... 

[eckagain]

A couple of the fine examples of the courtroom artists' oeuvre here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtJG7NFQZs
It's ok, SFW

[Peter]

Excellent!  And I've had my tea, too!