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|    Will Dockery to All    |
|    Re: "Low Country Pickers" (Painting by D    |
|    20 Dec 25 04:13:05    |
      From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid              mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:              > Will Dockery wrote:       >> HarryLime wrote:       >>> Miguel Sucio wrote:       > >> Will-Dockery wrote:       >       > >> See JLA Forums attachment below for the painting made of local banjo       picker "Dirty" Mike by the late artist Dan Barfield.       > >>       > >> HTH and HAND       >       > >> Dirty Mike lived under a piece of tarp       > >>       > >> No, Mike has his own tent in the woods nest the river.       > >>       > >> Zod has had his own apartment for a couple of years now.       > >>       > >> He could not have owned a       > >> clean, white shirt.       > >>       > >> So Dan Barfield painted him one.       > >>       > >> And no one would have       > >> allowed him on their front porch.       >       > >> The porch actually looks a lot like Zod's current porch, of his duplex       apartment. Dan either combined visuals or possibly the painting is based on       another meeting with Zod and Mike I wasn't aware of.       > >>       > >> Either way:       > >>       > >> It's a painting, not real life.       > >>       > >> Dan Barfield used Mike as a "model" for his painting, in his he created       his own scene, as Dan did in most of his paintings.       > >>       > >> See the JLA Forums attachment below for more examples.       > >>       > >> So... Dan didn't actually travel to Polynesia to make those paintings...       he merely copied them from Gauguin?       > >>       > >> Got it.       >       > > Dan Barfield painted those pieces of art from memory and photographs.       > >       > > Barfield did two tours of duty in Vietnam also, more memories he revisited       in lster years in his art and poetry.       >       > Like I said, they're crappy imitations of Gauguin.              Influenced by, but not imitations.              --       Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:       https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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