As I mentioned in my previous post, I did not expect a travel back to a different era, let alone find such a high level talent on display in the amateur art gallery, so the surprise was huge.
The funny thing is, when I visit any exhibition, for me it is like an hour, or half an hour detach from the real world. It's a (usually) quiet half an hour with my thoughts, with my feelings and at the end, it's always the same, I mean I regret not having time to start creating art in one form or another.
If you've read my previous post three days ago, you know the paintings I saw at this exhibition were far from the amateur level, but when I stopped here, the upper left painting suggested that I may be wrong. Without doubt, I can tell you there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube, about how to create this exact same scene on canvas, but I don't want to be rude, so let's move on.
Some landscapes for landscape lovers.
I find this too kitschy for my taste to be honest.
Three abstracts from the same artist. The upper two seem a bit similar to me, or not much different, but the bottom one I like.
It's a big, colorful, abstract mess, but an artistic and pleasant mess.
And this is where it gets interesting. It's a mix of times, old with modern and although the lady with the red hat looks great, I would leave her out this time as I like the others better. In a different gallery, these paintings, positioned more appropriately and lighted accordingly would have looked amazingly, not to mention I'd have had a better chance of photographing them individually.
So as I said , the lady is out of the equation and out of the five, which one would you choose? For me, it's really difficult. Each portrait represent or symbolizes something else and I'd want them all. How much it would cost me? I don't even want to know.
Four paintings of two painters. When I am forced to evaluate lots, eliminating the ones I like less helps reduce distraction, so here I'd eliminate the landscape and the face on the upper left.
Being left with the other two, I'd go with the upper right abstract portrait.
An abstract and a winter landscape. I already have a winter landscape, similar to this one, so even though I like it, it'd not be my choice. The abstract looks interesting, but there was a reflection on the paint, so I can't really see the original color not. Maybe it's green, maybe it's black, or both?
Two paintings from the same artist. If you have been reading my posts, you'd know which is my favorite, but if you haven't, I'll tell you. The bottom one, which is a cityscape of Transylvania, a part of a medieval city and I love it. The technique, the colors, the frame, it's just perfect. I'd be happy to have it on my wall.
Now that I'm posting these photos, was thinking how differently you think once you have a lot of two, three, or four photos. Maybe it's easier this way as you eliminate one or two immediately, but you lose on quality as you don't have a close photo, but this is life. You can't have everything.
Look at it. How can you not like it?
Last, but not least. two still life, both lovely, from the same artist as the other two above. I like how the frames were chosen here, it reminds us of the times when these still life paintings were living their golden age. It's well chosen, the colors too. I know at least one person is going to like these two :)
Let me know what you think as we have a mix of everything here.
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