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From: where art thou Category: Art Date: 01 February 2010 Time: 05:05 AM Review: http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/ryan-mosley-er-53.html Krut's paintings are better than Mosley's. Nowhere in Mosley's list of influences on the PR do we hear of Magritte's Vache period, and the motifs seem very close, with a fair bit more brown paintwork thrown in. Krut and Mosley look somewhat old fashioned (deliberately) in contrast to the way Magritte and Picabia look contemporary, still. Retro. Krut's paintings are funnier, more visually playful, with a nice one which looks like escalators, they make use of 3D and colour. Mosley has the now standard rough bit of painting versus a sketchy bit, school of painting 2010. Both of them have a talent for an elusive image, not to be pinned down, wanting to be painters like the old boys. Neither manages to cast off the sense of a million allusions and make just one believable illusion. Krut is closer.