Colin_Fraser
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I disagree with the view that it isn't art. I think it is art. Just not art that speaks to me personally.
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chippy
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Just call me a cynical old fart but I think this is just a bloke sat in front of a large photograph 
. The colours on his palette don't seem to tie in with the painting 
. If I'm wrong the blokes a genius
chippy
. The colours on his palette don't seem to tie in with the painting . If I'm wrong the blokes a genius chippy
Ferris
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It's ok but I think mine does it better though
I agree, yours has more soul!
Too bad you got the MG34 wrong, the bipod should be closer to the muzzle, but I love the green animal on the bottom left; the one that's pooping bullets.
DEL
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It's ok but I think mine does it better though
Magnificent
On a serious note when the UK hosted refugees fleeing from the atrocities in Kosova members of my staff were charged with supporting and integrating the children into the school system. Part of the process included specialist art therapists who encouraged the children to paint their experiences as part of the process.
I have several of these pieces, one of the most poignant is a colour pencil drawing very much in the style above. Drawn by a little girl showing her house and family, the house is in flames and the Granny and Granpa are crossed out. The rest of the family made it here and all but the oldest daughter who successfully trained as a hairdresser and married here, returned home to rebuild their lives.
Everybody can produce art so long as it is done with emotion.
Derek
Colin_Fraser
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One more from today
I was at Aldershot which probably explains mineMagnificent
On a serious note when the UK hosted refugees fleeing from the atrocities in Kosova members of my staff were charged with supporting and integrating the children into the school system. Part of the process included specialist art therapists who encouraged the children to paint their experiences as part of the process.
I have several of these pieces, one of the most poignant is a colour pencil drawing very much in the style above. Drawn by a little girl showing her house and family, the house is in flames and the Granny and Granpa are crossed out. The rest of the family made it here and all but the oldest daughter who successfully trained as a hairdresser and married here, returned home to rebuild their lives.
Everybody can produce art so long as it is done with emotion.
Derek
DEL
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1969
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That explains it all
I am a bit concerned with the green camel though, appears to have four legs and two arms, that's if it is a camel Although I do agree this type of 'Hyper' realism of late takes talent to do it for me it does not represent art in itself, it is more akin to a discipline in the fact the person is only recreating a photo dot by dot which is already achievable by a camera and a printer. The person who does this style of painting does not learn the key factors of things like anatomy and perspective. It is achieved by taking a photo and normally enlarging, converting to black and white then printing, it is then traced onto a blank canvas to be painted over.
I am sure most of the talented painters on this site could pull this off themselves by using the few techniques described.
peedee
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Well, Steve,
I'm not sure being a talented painter but I had ten minutes a roller and some matchpots
so I followed your instructions and I'm happy with my first go,
what do you think?
All the best
P. Hoto-Shoppe
ChaosCossack
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I agree that a canvas covered in blotches and squiggles that don't look like anything isn't art but this is so far at the other end of the scale it no longer looks like a painting and is therefore also missing something to my eye.
As for the Pickett's Charge, again it looks like a photo but the composition is buggered... the foreground should be the background and the background should be the foreground... maybe it's just me.
No matter what... there is a ton of talent and technical perfection here, but it loses the feel of a "painting".
Colin
As for the Pickett's Charge, again it looks like a photo but the composition is buggered... the foreground should be the background and the background should be the foreground... maybe it's just me.
No matter what... there is a ton of talent and technical perfection here, but it loses the feel of a "painting".
Colin
Pretty sure I saw it one night as I came out of the 'Pit mateThat explains it all
peedee
A Fixture
Yeah,
if I trace even just the outline of a drawing print or sketch
and then colour/ shade it with pencil are'nt I a copyist rather than an artist?
Although, as I typed that I rembered a feller did that upside down on the chapel ceiling at 'Cistine'
Oops, oh sod it! I agree it's beautiful and skilful, but it may as well be a movie backdrop,
It has no soul.
Paul
1969
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Pretty sure I saw it one night as I came out of the 'Pit mate
I happen to believe you there mate, didn't it work behind the bar and end up in the block most nights afterwards
DEL
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That explains it all
Typical result of Peak District inter species encounters
Claude Portsmouth
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Art will always bring out a huge variety of views and means different things to different people. My view is that there are plenty of would be artists who could never hope to paint to this level of perfection and instead produce crap for would be collectors with more money than sense...Tracy Emin is a good example...Damian Hurst.....some people love them.
I was watching a programme about Banksy the other day and some of the wonderfully realistic work he has produced on buildings.
Don Troiani produces great artwork very realistically drawn, well researched and good for uniform reference. Keith Rocco produces similar work but much less precise but with a greater degree of movement. I like them both for different reasons.
Art will always be in the eye of the beholder.........................as for this guy I think he is a genius.
Claude
I was watching a programme about Banksy the other day and some of the wonderfully realistic work he has produced on buildings.
Don Troiani produces great artwork very realistically drawn, well researched and good for uniform reference. Keith Rocco produces similar work but much less precise but with a greater degree of movement. I like them both for different reasons.
Art will always be in the eye of the beholder.........................as for this guy I think he is a genius.
Claude
peedee
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I go past this Banksy every day and it makes me smile.
Known locally as "Not War".
When someone chopped a Banksy ou
t of a Supermarket wall and sold it in New York, this one was covered in some kind of Plastic as you can see.
'He 'then returned and added this..
Never really liked this...banksy!
Paul
OldTaff
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He's absolutely a class act
