International Artist – August-September 2019

(Barré) #1

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Monsieur, oo-la-la! Trés diff érè nt, oil on canvas, 76 x 102 cm (30 x 40")
In this work, Vincent van Gogh paints Wheatfi eld with Cypresses near Arles where he lived in an asylum of his own accord.
A farm worker passes an opinion. He painted three versions of this subject.
W
ith so much art around these
days that I describe as smudges,
splodges and smears taking up a lot
of the art sales market, it is now a
greater challenge to create appealing
traditional works of art for patrons
to hang on their walls. It is a great
pleasure to work with long-proven art
values, ideas and developing skills.
Going back some years, all one had to
do was paint a landscape competently
and it would sell.  at would be plein
air or from photographs. Edgar Degas
said, “Painting is easy when you don’t
know how, but very di cult when
Lance Ross
Paying Homage
Australian artist Lance Ross honors the techniques of the past
masters with compositions featuring their likeness


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