Fisherman With Cutty a Van Gough?

[woodsroad]

True that was certainly a common thing not just with him.
I certainly see the resemblance between the two works. Though in the one above I can tell it's a neck beard and not some kind of fluffy undershirt or something.
Cool thanks, that's a pretty neat thing to see.

Ain't it, though?

 

[anotherbob]

Doesn't, to me, look likely. I had the opportunity to see a number of Van Gogh works up close some 20 years ago. I'd liked his stuff since I was a kid, but oh my word, in the flesh it's much much more. The amount of paint, the way it's applied is astonishing - it makes every other artist seem niggardly and parsimonious bar, maybe, Jackson Pollock. But at no point does one think "too much", it's absolutely right.

Monet might be a contender for the amount of paint per square inch. There are places that the paint sticks at least an inch off of the canvas.
A lot of paintings are so much more then you can see in a picture of them.
Even something like Rothko. The details that are totally invisible on film or digital transfer make a huge difference in the experience of seeing the dang thing.

 

[sablebrush52]

Well, if it is a Van Gogh, it's the ugliest, clumsiest Van Gogh I've ever seen, and I've seen a LOT of them up close.

Must have been on his meds that day.

 

[anotherbob]

Ain't it, though?

YES

 

[anotherbob]

Well, if it is a Van Gogh, it's the ugliest, clumsiest Van Gogh I've ever seen, and I've seen a LOT of them up close.

Must have been on his meds that day.

also looks like it was signed by shembotalic. Or something like that. In the lower right corner on the fishermans sleeve. Which is usually a sign of over medication.

 

[woodsroad]

Monet might be a contender for the amount of paint per square inch. There are places that the paint sticks at least an inch off of the canvas.
A lot of paintings are so much more then you can see in a picture of them.
Even something like Rothko. The details that are totally invisible on film or digital transfer make a huge difference in the experience of seeing the dang thing.

I have spent hours gazing at the impressive Monet collections in Philadelphia, but the most enthralling "Is it live, or is it Memorex" moments for me have been Edward Hopper's works. I was fortunate, when I was in high school, to attend the 1980-81 Hopper retrospective at The Whitney, and it sent chills down my spine. Already quite familiar with his work from a documentary I had worked on, the actual canvases were the difference between a 1960's Xerox and Kodachrome. The scale (many of the later works are huge), the vibrancy and the texture transported me to another dimension. It is only when viewing the actual paintings themselves that the deep emotion of his work takes root in the viewers soul. I came back from that dimension, and sought out more of his work in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and wherever it was that I traveled that held his paintings. His work has strongly influenced my photography, but I don't don't think it would have had such an impact had I never seen it in the flesh.

 

[ziv]

@woodsroad I had a similar experience in the Dali museum in St Pete, FL.
I had no idea some of his works were so big. And then The Discovery of America... it's like shining, the canvas emanates light. No pictures can convey that experience.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Susan and I were hitting some yard sales in PA recently. Brrrr! It’s been cold. We ended up buying this painting. I’m afraid to tell you how much I spent because I probably paid waaaay too much. I should’ve haggled more. But, I liked it because it reminded me a lot of Vincent van Gogh. The guy said that the grandfather of a friend of his picked it up in the Netherlands ages ago; supposedly, it was a portrait of some Eastern European guy that was in some insane asylum in France and was gifted the painting, but he didn’t want it or to have anything to do with the guy who kept stealing his dessert. It has some writing on the back, but I don’t speak Dutch. Anyway, I like it. The guy in the painting looks like he would smoke a pipe.

 

[woodsroad]

Susan and I were hitting some yard sales in PA recently. Brrrr! It’s been cold. We ended up buying this painting. I’m afraid to tell you how much I spent because I probably paid waaaay too much. I should’ve haggled more. But, I liked it because it reminded me a lot of Vincent van Gogh. The guy said that the grandfather of a friend of his picked it up in the Netherlands ages ago; supposedly, it was a portrait of some Eastern European guy that was in some insane asylum in France and was gifted the painting, but he didn’t want it or to have anything to do with the guy who kept stealing his dessert. It has some writing on the back, but I don’t speak Dutch. Anyway, I like it. The guy in the painting looks like he would smoke a pipe.

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Jeff, you are crazy. In a really good way.