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   Message 43,829 of 45,517   
   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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