in the case of alan charlton, he has these six very fine grey panels, by very fine i just mean they are handsomely proportioned, they are very carefully coloured to a very precise, not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on, but the way they're shown in the royal academy exhibition, and this is part of it's stupidity, is, well i got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud, very elaborate, very expressionist, a vast canvass by a very good painter by mutter.