Art 2nd Thread

kluurs

This is a recent picture I purchased. It's at the framer's. I may pick it up tomorrow. It's a work by a Japanese artist who passed away a couple of years ago named Tanaka Ryohei. It's titled, "Kamo Road".

Bernard

One more.

Backstory: I bought this painting in 1992. I worked at 853 Broadway, southern border of Union Square Park, 18th floor. Our building is the brown rectangle in the upper left corner of the painting. I used to go out to the park's farmer's market during lunch and one day saw this young man with easel and palette working away among the hubbub of the market. I liked it a lot and asked him if it was for sale and how much did he want. Only $200. He was happy that someone actually wanted to buy one of his paintings. He pointed out to me areas of the painting that he was quite happy with and why it pleased him. (Note: You can see the twin towers in the distance.)

I searched the internet for him last year and discovered that he's done well for himself as an artist, now residing in Hoboken. I must have one of his earliest NY paintings because he moved from Buffalo in 1991.

A show he had this year:
https://hobokenmuseum.org/exhibition/natural-plus-new-paintings-by-frank-hanavan/

kluurs

Nice picture, Bernard. You - and he did well.

Daniel

@Bernard said:

@Daniel "Taste is a fashion" Yes. Art has no intrinsic value in the realm of money.

That's right!

Daniel

@axtremus

2 answers-

1 If you're hanging an artwork, of course, it depends on the placement, and also the placement of other artworks at the same time, if any.

2 I'd turn it so the left side would be the bottom side.

I imagine the rectangular figure with a circle on top represents a lighthouse and the lines represent the sky.

AndyD

Try back to front?

AndyD

@kluurs said:

This is a recent picture I purchased. It's at the framer's. I may pick it up tomorrow. It's a work by a Japanese artist who passed away a couple of years ago named Tanaka Ryohei. It's titled, "Kamo Road".

I too would buy it.
Love the composition, in fact everything about it calls out to me.

Fascinating, realistic, dull, fabulous detail, take a photo, because I can.
I couldn't walk past it without stopping to admire the whispy branches.
What size is it? A2?

(Very Japanese, like one of those incredibly clever & perfect wooden mechanical joints their joiners create. Nail, glue?)

dolmansaxlil

I have a lot of original art in my home and I love it all. We never entertain because I am so introverted and the only regret I have about that is no one gets to see what we have on our walls but us!

I have several paintings by an old friend, Rob Croxford. I met him in theatre school - we was a designer and scenic painter. Eventually he became a full time artist and we reconnected. I have seven of his paintings - 3 large, 2 medium, and 2 small. This is the first one I bought (14 years ago!). I lived on what is now Dundas Square when I lived in Toronto so there was nostalgia element to buying this piece. He actually hates this one and I tease him about that all the time. A couple years ago the TTC (the public transit authority for Toronto) commissioned a painting for the front of their transit map. He sent me a couple copies and I have them tucked behind the canvas.