Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2024
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
a trompe l'oeil by James Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth graduated from high school in 1972 just as the Vietnam War was coming to a conclusion. Nonetheless, the Selective Service system of assigning draft status by a lottery based on birth dates resulted in Hollingsworth having a “draft number” of 9, which meant that he would inevitably be drafted into military service. He chose instead to enlist in the Air Force where he served for two years in the service and an additional four years in the Air National Guard. It was during these years that he also began to paint in watercolor.
After his stint in the Air Force, Hollingsworth focused on allocating the educational benefits of his G.I. bill wisely, ultimately choosing to attend Atlanta Area Technical School where he obtained an Airframe and Power Plant Certificate in 1980; this allowed him to accomplish his goal of working as an airplane mechanic. Hollingsworth had a long-standing interest in flying, and in particular, had become especially intrigued by the sport of soaring, flying sail planes which have no engines. Today, his painting continues to reflect this fascination as he depicts a variety of airplanes in his still-life paintings.
The lure of design pulled Hollingsworth out of his work as a airplane mechanic in 1982 when he went to work for a graphic design studio owned by a friend’s father. The studio needed someone who could design and produce promotions for southeastern dairy farm clients; for Hollingsworth, this work offered a different type of challenge, as well as the prospect of more congenial working conditions from the chilly hangars that he’d experienced as a mechanic.
https://www.neilhollingsworth.com/2015
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Best known for painting horse cavalry in battles, 4th generation painter Wojciech Kossak was also court painter of Emperor Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, and an avid car enthusiast that was commissioned by Fiat to paint an advertisement
The first two Fiat cars hit the Polish lands in 1906 thanks to the Herman Meyer company in Warsaw. Car import, which in 1913 increased to 114 units, was interrupted by the First World War. Herman Meyer resumed operations in 1919. A year later, a branch was created, to which Fiat contributed 51% of capital: in this way, on February 2, 1920, the Polish Fiat company was established.
The poster was commissioned by the Polski Fiat SA company, manufacturing and selling Italian car brand Fiat, operating in Warsaw in the years 1920–1939. The vehicle, presented in a realistic way, is a Fiat 508 – the most popular passenger car on the Polish roads in the 1930s, having had its premiere in 1932 in Milan.
For the consumer in the 1930s, the message was that even a sworn horse admirer like Wojciech Kossak accepts and respects mechanical horse power.
Another title of the work is "Highlander wedding": this version is more subtle, because it does not expose the contrast between tradition and modernity to the viewer to conclude that times change and progress is inevitable - even among such a traditional community as highlanders.
In the car, the painter placed his two daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec.
For the fee he received from the order, Kossak rented a suite for the whole year on the sixth floor of the Bristol hotel in Warsaw, from which a beautiful panorama of the capital spread (this view became an inspiration for the artist's later works). Anecdotal rumor says, however, that the negotiated amount turned out to be lower than the artist's expectations and that for this reason the painted silhouette of the vehicle is cut off, while the horses, despite remaining in the background, are shown in full, in a very impressive pose, and of course they are clearly ahead of the car.
The original was displayed at the Warsaw headquarters of the company. Unfortunately, it was lost during the war and has not been found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Kossak
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/polski-fiat-polish-fiat/TAF34d0G8XdNRg
https://automobilownia.pl/majstersztyki-reklamy-dwa-swiaty/
Thanks Marcin!
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Max Grundy is having an art exhibit and selling some originals!
Fearists! We are having a large showing of original paintings this coming Sept 6th at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.
These are all painted with one-shot enamel paint on aluminum panel. Sizes on these range from 13 x 19" all the way to 4" wide.
Prices range form $1,500- $3,500 Let me know if you have any interest.
These are on first come basis. I cannot hold any paintings. Thanks!
-MAX http://www.fearisthenewbeauty.com/
Max@Fearisthenewbeauty.com
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
the only motorcycle with a Wichita State University registration sticker racing on El Mirage, a 1977 Kawasaki, the F*Bomb
http://jackshitsworld.blogspot.com/2011/05/its-just-so-hard-to-believe.html?zx=638c497457ce4495 tells you who Lorrie was, and why she is loved by many. It also mentions she was killed in the night by semis racing through Oklahoma that ran her over from behind. WTF right?
Sunday, March 17, 2013
a unique airplane... not just a piece of nose art on this B 24, this has a dragon down the entire fuselage... and the other side has a different paint scheme
above found on http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0
the original
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Saturday, February 02, 2013
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