Recent content by Hermes2020

Welcome to our family of artists, sevan. I love your colour palette and brush technique.

Excellent! I really like your style.

I've never been on Facebook, but heard that deleting one's profile completely requires some special steps. There are some YouTube videos that guide one to do it.

Ian Anderson interpreting the indestructible Bach's composition Bourée on the flute. I saw Jethro Tull in concert once.

It will be interesting to see how the first test withstands light abrasion, like being rubbed with fingertips. Conventional wisdom says that liquid acrylic paint does not stick well to oils.

It is a Portrait of Dr Dumouchel (1910) by Marcel Duchamp, of whom I am a big fan. Duchamp had quite a sense of humour and had a feminine persona, or pseudonym, called Rrose Sélavy. Hence the clue "a Rrose by any other name. C'est la vie!". The black & white photo is of him dressed up as...

Yes, they probably are a bit cryptic, but I think they will make sense when I reveal his name.

Glad you are enjoying it! Another clue: I'll be a nice guy for a change and give another one, which should give it away:

A visit to Antony Gormley's studio. I admire him so much. Plus, he uses Eames Soft Pad chairs!

I think it's time to give a final clue before I reveal the name of this artist: a Rrose by any other name. C'est la vie!

Not Picasso. A clue: he probably did more than any other artist to make people think about the boundaries between art and non-art.

This artist had a huge influence on the development of art in the 20th century.

Same here.

Boucher?

You know more than me, so perhaps van Amstel is the one. All I know is it probably wasn't Jackson Pollock.