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Artwork Featuring Hats

GHT

I'll Lock Up
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I really like the way he uses light and shadow to provide a bit of contrast in his work.
The so called elite of art critiques scoff at Vettriano. According to The Daily Telegraph he has been described as the Jeffrey Archer of the art world, a purveyor of "badly conceived soft porn," and a painter of "dim erotica." According to Vanity Fair, critics say Jack Vettriano paints brainless erotica. Sandy Moffat, head of drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art, said: "He can’t paint, he just colours in." The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones, described Vettriano’s paintings as a group as "brainless" and said Vettriano "is not even an artist." Richard Calvocoressi, at the time director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, said: "I’d be more than happy to say that we think him an indifferent painter and that he is very low down our list of priorities (whether or not we can afford his work, which at the moment we obviously can’t). His popularity rests on cheap commercial reproductions of his paintings."

In 2013 in The Guardian newspaper, art critic Jonathan Jones wrote: "Vettriano fixes on fetishistic, stylish objects and paints them with a slick, empty panache" and "The world of Jack Vettriano is a crass male fantasy that might have come straight out of Money by Martin Amis."

In The Scotsman, George Kerevan wrote "He suffers all the same criticisms of the early French Impressionists: mere wallpaper, too simplistic in execution and subject, too obviously erotic." Alice Jones wrote in The Independent that Vettriano has been labelled a chauvinist whose "women are sexual objects, frequently half naked and vulnerable, always in stockings and stilettos." Regarding the criticism, sculptor David Mach has said: "If he was a fashion designer Jack would be right up there. It’s all just art world snobbery. Anyway, who cares, he probably makes more money than Damien Hirst anyway."

In October 2005, after the original of The Singing Butler sold for £740,000, it came to light that Vettriano had used the artists' reference manual The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual to form his figures, using Irish actress Orla Brady as his model for the 'Lady in Red.'

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Hurricane Jack!

Actually it's an "Impressionistic Santa with Rockin Red Fedora," by Karen Whitworth
 
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The so called elite of art critiques scoff at Vettriano...
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, "Those who can, do; those who can't, become critics." They can all sit on their loathsome oversized spotty backsides and make all the proclamations they want. I have a simpler method for appraising art--I either like it, or I don't. Of course, that's easier for me because I have no skin in the game, but that's another discussion for another time. ;)
 

Woodtroll

One Too Many
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I really like David Wright's work. I first some some of his Eastern longhunter themed art and was hooked. Technically correct to period (as far as I can tell, anyway), and the detail is incredible. There is a HUGE mural of his painting of Daniel Boone leading settlers to Ol' Kentuck through the Cumberland Gap in the Cumberland Gap Visitor's Center.

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He also seems to capture the subtleties of light and subject that really bring life to his art. Keeping to topic, there are quite a few hats in his paintings, too. :)

Thanks for posting these!
 
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Daniel Boone leading settlers to Ol' Kentuck
I always liked & remembered the quote (probably folklore) attributed to Daniel Boone. In 1792 when asked why he was leaving Kentucky after so many yrs for the Missouri territory his reply was, "It's just getting too damn crowded". Oh, how I wish!

Incredible detail by David Wright.

A Good Day’s Hunt
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Beneath The Silent Canopy
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Drifting Downriver
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Northwoods Trappers
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No Time To Linger
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Moving Camp
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American Rifleman
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The Blue Capote
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I always liked & remembered the quote (probably folklore) attributed to Daniel Boone. In 1792 when asked why he was leaving Kentucky after so many yrs for the Missouri territory his reply was, "It's just getting too damn crowded". Oh, how I wish!

Incredible detail by David Wright.

Drifting Downriver
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Beautiful artwork, but one of my first thoughts was, "How would they get a boat like that back upriver?" o_O
 

Michael R.

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Thanks for the link Michael. I enjoyed reading that!

Hope you received no damage from Friday night's storms in your area?

Hey HJ, Tornadoes were everywhere, but Thankfully No Damage in my immediate area, though Samburg up at Reelfoot Lake was hit and Kenton had 4 houses destroyed. Mayfield is about 50-55 miles from me, and that is Unbelievable and heart breaking. Scary night for everybody.
 

GHT

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That is truly a very talented work of art. My sister likes to draw pencil sketches, she does it in much the same style. She needs a lot more practice to achieve that standard though.

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You might have noticed that I have penchant for old MG cars.
I love the first picture, there's going to be a right royal domestic when he finds that she has run over his clubs.
 

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