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Oct 31, 2003, 5:48:32 PM10/31/03
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Thomas Arvid Preeminent Painter of Wine
THOMAS ARVID - Artist Thomas Arvid has achieved spectacular success and
national acclaim with his still-life compositions of wine and the rituals
surrounding its consumption.

http://www.arvid-artist.com/


Nikolaus Maack

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Nov 1, 2003, 8:34:26 PM11/1/03
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:48:32 -0500, gallery wrote
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> http://www.arvid-artist.com/

I suppose we all have to paint something. But it all feels like a very well
thought out marketing gimmick as opposed to art. Something pretentious wine
drinking snobs can hang on their wall, so that other pretentious wine
drinking snobs will know they are part of that crowd.

It strikes me that art should be personal and intimate. Why, I don't know.
My particular bias I suppose. This is so cold and impersonal and calculated.
That's part of why it feels like a gimmick to me. There is no artist here,
no personality. It's the manufacturing of a thing, a product people can buy,
as cold and as distant from the artist as anything can possibly be.

Then again, maybe Arvid defines himself as a wine drinker, and this pose is
exactly who he is. God help him. Maybe he is a highly realistic still life,
devoid of fire.

http://www.arvid-artist.com/arvid-art-collections.html

Well-executed, but something I'd expect to see in an advertisement. Why
someone would want a large wine ad on their wall, I don't know. But I
suppose these people are out there, in the world.

Anyone else have a reaction to these paintings?

Nik
http://www.nikart.ca

kay & wand

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Nov 1, 2003, 9:46:06 PM11/1/03
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slick, and sick if described as art.

i can see them selling well to resturants, coffee shops, etc., but no one
would ever consider them art in its true sense....

leslie

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Apple Loosa

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Nov 2, 2003, 7:32:13 AM11/2/03
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In article <0001HW.BBC9C952...@news1.on.sympatico.ca>,
nikm...@sympatico.ca says...


>Anyone else have a reaction to these paintings?

It could well be this artist only shows in wine tasting
art events. There is an annual wine tasting
event where I live and it has a juried art exhibit
that goes with it - and the art must be somehow
related to the subject of "wine" - no matter how
obscurely, it often seems.


DNALJM

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Nov 4, 2003, 2:18:58 AM11/4/03
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>Anyone else have a reaction to these paintings?
>

I puked, does that count?

Jane


http://www.geocities.com/teslathemothgod

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