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    Recent art that you liked

    Well, there it works now - very nice pictures! :-)
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    Recent art that you liked

    I have a feeling all those patterns will appeal to StLukes as well. I tried to go check out your Instagram, but the link doesn't work...
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    Recent art that you liked

    Frances Featherstone: Away With The Fairies’, Oil on canvas, 90 x 70cm. Epicurean Pleasures. Oil on canvas,100 x 90cm. Splendid Isolation. Oil on canvas 80 x 60cm. The Talking Cloth. Oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm.
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    Recent art that you liked

    Being an omniphile is all very well if you're not an artist yourself. My problem is that I like so many different things at different times, that I have found it pretty much impossible to settle on any clearly recognizable thing for myself. Perhaps it is better for an artist not to like too many...
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    Recent art that you liked

    Chad Little: Emotional Support Valise. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in With Both Hands. Oil on Linen, 30 x 40 in.
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    Artwork looted by Nazis 80 years ago spotted in estate agent ad

    Artwork looted by Nazis 80 years ago spotted in estate agent ad https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq68dze2l71o
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    A.I. =Goodbye

    AI is pretty good at writing some kinds of pop and country songs. I have yet to see an AI come anywhere close to writing something like, say, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, or Billy Joel's Italian Restaurant. Same goes with classical music: AI can often make up pastiches of typical Beethoven or...
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    What are you up to?

    Here in the southern hemisphere we've had the coldest frickin' winter ever, or at least it feels that way. We'll probably soon have our turn at the heat waves. Can't help with the neocolor gold, but perhaps it's best to switch to the Zorn palette - the fewer colors we have, the fewer that can...
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    Recent art that you liked

    It's the kind of thing that demonstrates the adage "the past is a foreign country." It gives me an idea for a movie: serial killer paints bits of his victims into still life pictures... :)
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    Recent art that you liked

    The vanitas paintings were usually full of life, with a few symbols of death, like a skull or blown out candle. In Goya's version, it's just death all the way. :LOL:
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    Recent art that you liked

    We don't usually associate Goya with still life. But I like this one. And it's kind of funny that even his still life pictures are somewhat grim and morbid. :LOL: Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828) - Still life with Golden Bream. Oil on canvas, 45 x 63 cm.
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    Why Creative Success Destroys People

    Yes, it can be a difficult balance to maintain. Even just for commercial success, you need to be at least somewhat known, but the moment you do enjoy commercial success, all the psychological baggage that comes with fame might start to affect you. I think it's important to have some idea of...
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    Why Creative Success Destroys People

    Bit of a longish video, and perhaps the guy is being a bit overly dramatic about the struggles of artists, but I did find it an interesting watch: Makes me kind of relieved that I'm an entirely obscure, unsuccessful and starving artist. :-)
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    Artist Wins $2.5M After Being Sued Over Painting That Wasn't His

    Rather surreal case... :-)
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    What are you working on?

    I nowadays seldom do anything digitally, but I would still prefer to do the initial drawing manually, on paper. It gives better textures.:-)
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