The Art Thread

Wattie

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@Wattie - love the skyscraper painting... that’s very much to my taste...

Thank you Jon, lets start some mutual appreciation as I really like you top painting. Reminds me of the famous view of earth from space. The second one is clever too...is it a painting as if it is i'm trying to figure out how on earth those raindrops were painted so reallistically. Presumably its a photo, raindrops in focus, background blurred?
 

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I like that a lot.

We went to the Gormley show at the RA not so long ago. Was seriously tempted by some prints.

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I went to that too, lots of very interesting works. He does seem to have a bit of an obsession with his own banana though :p
 

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Thank you Jon, lets start some mutual appreciation as I really like you top painting. Reminds me of the famous view of earth from space. The second one is clever too...is it a painting as if it is i'm trying to figure out how on earth those raindrops were painted so reallistically. Presumably its a photo, raindrops in focus, background blurred?

cheers - both are them are paintings (oil on canvas I think).. the raindrop one works better when looking at it from afar, so it sits at the end of a double length room we have.
 

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My final offering which I liked because of the sunset. I liked it even more when I was told it’s a painting on Glass, mounted in reverse. not a photo as I’d first thought.
Humidity is beginning to get to the mounting unfortunately.63232
 
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Phil H

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This artist is very versatile and very good:


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Wattie

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This artist is very versatile and very good:


PH
Ohh now i am liking some of that. portraits/motorsports particularily.
 

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Another interesting thread. We have a diverse art collection, some very old, some new.
Here's an interesting recent purchase, a self portrait by Ewan McClure. Even more fascinating when you see how he paints self portraits (see video).

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It sits next to a late 17th Century portrait by Thomas Murray (1663-1734).
In reality, the latter painting is much larger than the first.
(I took the picture from a bit of an odd angle to reduce glare from electric light, which wouldn't have been an issue when it was painted).63238
 
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I certainly don't want to p*ss on anyone's parade, far from it, however, re: the world of art, in the many forms it takes, and, with a very heavy dose of ignorance, can someone explain to me the difference between "inspired by" and "plagiarism". The OP's "Lowry" for example.

Absolutely you have a point, it happens and whilst there’s probably a more professional answer, I’d imagine the cut and thrust of it is that firstly there’s really only so many styles, yes some do mimic but then there’s only so many real originals and they are out of reach to 99.99% of us.

So the ‘style of’ artist comes along and has talent in their own right, they themselves (unless in the business of forgery) have as style they like and the rest is history, affordable art, ‘inspired’ along the way but the really talented ones do sell.

with Sean Durkin I happen to know that his family incident with a Lowry painting, when he was aged 8, obviously flicked a small switch. He was paining for years and was approached to start selling his as I don’t believe he had any intention to.

I most certainly love the painting so happy all around.
 

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Its a very personal thing isnt it. You buy what you like because you have to look at it for the next 10 plus years on your wall.
If it becomes an investment then thats awesome otherwise you just get the pleasure of seeing it every day.
We have a few bits from various places and most of them have no collectability/investment value. There is a local artist here called Christian Hook (HOOOK) who has won sky portrait artist of the year ( 2014 i think ) and has a piece in the 100 masterpieces of the Scottish national portait gallery. He has now painted many famous people the last being Richard Branson and his work seems to sell for a lot of money now.
 

lifes2short

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Another interesting thread. We have a diverse art collection, some very old, some new.
Here's an interesting recent purchase, a self portrait by Ewan McClure. Even more fascinating when you see how he paints self portraits (see video).

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It sits next to a late 17th Century portrait by Thomas Murray (1663-1734).
In reality, the latter painting is much larger than the first.
(I took the picture from a bit of an odd angle to reduce glare from electric light, which wouldn't have been an issue when it was painted).View attachment 63238
bugger me that's impressive, never seen that before, is he the only painter to paint in this way for selfies?
 

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Absolutely you have a point, it happens and whilst there’s probably a more professional answer, I’d imagine the cut and thrust of it is that firstly there’s really only so many styles, yes some do mimic but then there’s only so many real originals and they are out of reach to 99.99% of us.

So the ‘style of’ artist comes along and has talent in their own right, they themselves (unless in the business of forgery) have as style they like and the rest is history, affordable art, ‘inspired’ along the way but the really talented ones do sell.

with Sean Durkin I happen to know that his family incident with a Lowry painting, when he was aged 8, obviously flicked a small switch. He was paining for years and was approached to start selling his as I don’t believe he had any intention to.

I most certainly love the painting so happy all around.

Thank you for that. I appreciate your thoughts on the point being made. I did consider not posting the question as some folks can get terribly defensive. Especially with something as personal as choice of art. You make a number of valid points yourself so thanks again. It's a great back story too!

I do find the question of originality interesting though with, for example, recent music industry copyright infringement cases. The Blurred Lines / Got To Give It Up settlement award running into millions. Would it be frowned upon on this thread to take the opportunity to post a gratuitous pic. of Emily Ratajkowski? Sod it! It would more likely frowned upon not to:

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Thank you for that. I appreciate your thoughts on the point being made. I did consider not posting the question as some folks can get terribly defensive. Especially with something as personal as choice of art. You make a number of valid points yourself so thanks again. It's a great back story too!

Not at all it was a valid question and you didn’t put it across d1ckish lol.

For me I think certainly as far as Sean Durkin goes it’s appreciating the style of an artist who is no longer with us. It’s not blatant exact copies of Lowry works and it’s painting in the style of him which allows the rest of us to enjoy it.

It’s that thing as well isn’t it, I mean you could go to Next and spend £100 on 3 canvas prints but where’s the joy in that. Ok for adding a bit of colour to a wall but a sympathetically done painting, where the artist is out there and open about what he does, it’s more personal and just nicer isn’t it.
 

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Sold !! Lol

That really was a **** take. In both the price and the guy eating it, I assume it was actually staged for publicity?

too late i've eaten it now:p, shouldn't be too tricky to do another though, any preference on which supermarket banana.