Pino - Italian artist
gallery
artist, Pino at
http://www.chasengalleries.com/pino/index.html
Bill
Bill
> artist, Pino at
>
> http://www.chasengalleries.com/pino/index.html
OK Pino. You've learned how to paint. You've paid your dues.
You've been around the track a few times, You can handle color, and you can
make good use of darkness and light, sunshine and shadow. There's
nothing WRONG with your paintings. But try as I might I can't see
anything RIGHT with them either. Attractive young girls are a fact of
life. A dime a dozen ! If I want one hanging on my wall I'll go out and buy
a Playboy magazine and a pair of scissors. Your faces all have the same
dull, bored look about them and are totally lacking in character. They
show no emotions of joy or love, excitement, anger, bitterness, resolve,
determination or despair.. It's as if you were painting wax manikins all
dressed differently but all essentially the same. I got the same reaction
I get looking at a color advertisement of J C Penny fashions. The models
are pretty but interchangeable. And I leave thinking that if Penny wanted
to
impress me why didn't they show me how great their fashions would look on a
50 year old woman - maybe a black woman - who has raised a few kids, faced
life with all its triumph and tragedy and came through it all with head held
high and with dignity and honor intact. And all of it written in her face.
Now THAT I might want to hang on my wall ! Come on, Pino ! Put some
LIFE into your work ! Illustration is one thing. Fine art is another.
Regards, Bill
Thur
"Bill" <bm...@XpaM.net> wrote in message
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Agreed. I also think this applies some painters of the 19th Century who
seem to have done the same, although they painted better.
By the way, I doubt that he checks out r.a.f. He does well in the
marketplace, and those who wish to sell his works post to us.
--
Thur