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Funny thing: I've been a "goggie" for decades, have read several books and seen several films about his life, and own books of paintings, including "The Complete..."
And he only worked for a decade, and only did the really good stuff in the last few years.
And yet I keep finding works from him I swear I have never seen before. That guy worked like a Tazmanian Devil (the cartoon version). It's like he knew he had limited time.
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| Cool colors. So dark and yet so clear and separated. |
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| (This is one I swear I have never seen before.) |
8 comments:
We ALL have a limited time here! Aren't you working hard to do what you need to do in your remaining time?
Sure, but there's a difference between making an _oevre_ (body of life work) as he was keen to do, in 50 years, and doing it in five.
Kind of neat, but I was hoping for a high-res file I could print, not just stare at on a screen.
Buy a print. It would be much better quality anyone. I mean, really, what a stupid complaint.
High quality image files are generally hard to find on the web. Even for out-of-copyright stuff.
So, I wonder - and this is a serious question - what exactly am I supposed to get out of this? What makes it genius? I wonder what other people feel when they look at it. I just don't get why it's genius. I don't get the point of it.
I don't think paintings should look like photographs (otherwise, just take a photograph, although it would be interesting to see this view in a nighttime photo), but I'm not sure I get the point.
Ah well, humor is brittle, and genius is subjective.
If you can't say why it's genius, you don't know why - you are probably the type to just go by whatever art critics tell you.
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