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kimmie · Last edited by kimmie on Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:39 am; edited 1 time in total

Here you need to post your favorite paintings and art pictures...please include the artists name and a link

I have a favorite style of painting but for the life of me i cannot think of the artists name...or find his paintings online to help me...maybe one of you will help me here and find him ...

he generally paints in oil and he found a new way to paint...he built up hundreds of layers using a lot of white and yellow before he painted his paintings...this would then give the illusion of the painting glowing...so if he painted a cottage, it would appear that the lights in the cottage were on..but only when your home lights were turned down, otherwise the painting in daylight would look like the cottage lights were off in day time....if you see what i mean!
He also had a code with his signature...this code would relate to the painting...so for instance...if the code was N/125 that would mean that in his painting there would be 125 letter N's in the actual painting..hidden somewhere!! that way you knew they were his works and not copies!
I believe he is american, although i am not too sure...and there was a studio in Inverness, in the shopping center.

his work is similar otherwise to the artists in my link

http://www.impressionists-oil-paintings.com/traditional.html

misteralz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

I think Banksy's one of the most talented artists out there - because he can actually paint, model, take the piss out of himself and his peers and seems to be having fun with it. And is that not what art's supposed to be about?

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Sassinak · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

I tend to like very traditional art and love the pictures by Joseph Farquharson.An example here and a link to a site selling lots more

http://www.allposters.co.uk/galle...ate=10%2F29%2F2007+4%3A59%3A10+AM

My other great love which does not really fit are some of Dali's works
particularly "Swans reflecting Elephants" and "The Persistence of Memory"

http://biography.free-people.net/paintings-salvador-dali.php,

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Sassinak · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

I forgot Escher lol

http://www.mcescher.com/
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zombiecazz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject:

Big Dali Fan too.
This is my favourite

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Sassinak · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject:

That's the one something about dreaming after pomegranites isn't it?
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zombiecazz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate
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misteralz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

Not mad keen on the whole Dadaist/Surrealist movement, but that painting along with his lobster phone are ace.

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misteralz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject:

And I'm really digging Eduardo Paolozzi at the moment after seeing some of his stuff dotted around Edinburgh...

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misteralz · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject:

And of course it's impossible not to love Andy Saunders' Citroen Picasso...

Especially with quotes like this:

"It hasn't lost any of its speed - it can still reach 65mph. Eventually I hope to sell it and maybe it will be bought by the Tate Gallery or the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

"It's hard to put a value on it now, but as it's a work of art I reckon it might sell for about a million pounds.

"However, if museums or art collectors won't buy it, I think I might have to stick it in Auto Trader."
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