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01-13-2012, 08:59 AM

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realism painters are like the only artists i respect.

01-13-2012, 09:37 AM

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realism painters are like the only artists i respect.

Yeah that Da-Vinci was *****

01-13-2012, 09:38 AM

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I mean he couldn't even paint an ear, let alone a scrabble board.

01-13-2012, 11:16 AM

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LOL at paying huge $$$ for a print of photo-realism. Or is there some sort of double irony that I'm missing?

01-13-2012, 11:18 AM

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01-13-2012, 11:40 AM

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Holy crap! Did you check out prices for his prints???

Not until now...that's retarded. I figured his originals were huge bucks though. I buy original art when I'm moved to do so, but typically not prints of paintings, it's far too superficial at that point.

Edit: Here's one...$28K

01-13-2012, 11:44 AM

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realism painters are like the only artists i respect.

Most artists with a formal education learn to draw and paint with perfect realism, then they move on to bigger and better things. There is just as much skill and a lot more creativity in the contemporary art that you dismiss.

Those oil paintings, while demonstrating technical skill and patients, are total crap. They are nothing more than a study in technique.
Lets put it another way. If those were photographs, they would be garbage. So why would they be fine art when copied perfectly in oil?

01-13-2012, 12:56 PM

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I buy original art when I'm moved to do so, but typically not prints of paintings, it's far too superficial at that point.

Not only that, but why bother with a print of a painting of a photograph? Why not just take the damn picture yourself? Sure, the guy has skillz, but it seems like he's doing it the wrong way...