"Sorry, I should have defined my terms for you. When I say sympathetic I mean in agreement with the intent of the piece not the colloquial synonym for empathy. Positive and negative response would be relative to that intent rather than a judgment value placed on the evoked emotion."
If Anthony was being slightly condescending, it was entirely intentional. He also had no trouble following Theo's reference. His mother was a portrait painter after all, and one did pick things up.
"In the case of Giranni's work, his intent was to rile the Wizarding world with his depictions of goblin's massacring innocent villagers and it was very effective. I'm not sure I would call it great art as much as good propaganda though. The liberties he took with the actual events are numerous and devalue the piece's merit as documentation which was how Giranni marketed it."