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Inspiration from Artist Wk149 Featuring Artists : Ohara Koson and John McCartin/ McCarthy .
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John McCartin , is an Australian post war contemporary artist born in 1953. John displayed a talent young boy and started painting as a hobby in his early twenties. With no formal training he developed his craft with I constant practice, he is and adept painter of landscapes , seascapes , floral/still life figurers , portraits and animals .
It was in 2002 that he decided to take the daunting leap and give up a secure income to become a professional artist
Whilst he paints in a realistic manner I think he still retains the it’s a painting look to his superb paintings.
I hope you enjoyed the selection of his work that I have chosen and will look online at his artwork, hopefully you will find a painting or two you would like to post .
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I originally intended featuring a artist called John McCartney and decided this morning to change it to John McCartin as I was unable to find any information about MCCartney . The other problem is that there are several famous John McCartney on the internet including other artists ,I chose to post McCartin and didn’t really check out if we had seen his work before down to juggling to many thing at the same time . My apologies for the confusion and lack of concentration , particularly due to blocked sinuses and a thumping headache. I have looked again and I still cannot find any information about John McCathy other than an interview where he described his painting technique and how he came to paint ob crumpled paper . I will therefore post some of his artwork in the hope that you good folk will, be able to fill in the gaps and cover my inability to find the information. Hands up in stumped and beat with this one .
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Getting difficult to distinguish each individual painter - I think we HAVE seen your first one before, Mr McCartin (?) but even if we have it doesn't matter: I think that when you reach artists at this level of skill, there are likely to be some similarities at least; and that makes life difficult. There are other painters - and I'm thinking of John McCombs among others, Kyffin Williams would be another, whose style is so distinctive that even if they don't carefully primp and polish their work to a level of Monsted-like perfection (NB - no criticism of Monsted or those who aim to paint like him), they bring something else to the party. I'm in danger of inferring that paintings can be TOO good, which I really don't mean: but you wouldn't mistake a McCombs or Kyffin Williams for anyone else, and to me that makes their work special.
I suppose the work of your second artist is also special, in that it's different - but I just don't see any good reason to produce paintings, if they are paintings, based on or incorporating obvious photographs and then retrieved from the waste-bin into which I imagine they were thrown. All I'm seeing there is images that may be painted or may not, put through one or more of Photoshops various apps. I had Photoshop for a while, in a trial version - I never understood it (raster layers? Beyond me by a long way) and had no wish to persist with it. I do have some sympathy with those who want to break away from the conventional, on the grounds that it's been done (though I'd say "done by others yes, but not by me: and I think there's still some value in trying to achieve one's own version and vision of well-trodden techniques") but there's breaking away from convention, and just wasting time on gimmickry - and I know what I think these images are.
My sympathy with the sinuses - they can be very painful, but you'll know all about that.
The full article can be found on this site -
He is known for his photo-realistic portraits.
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Uncertain about this art. As is often the case where I'm not totally impressed, I can only admire the skill required to produce such work. But artists must do their own thing, and this artist certainly does that. I prefer those that look like they are viewed through a 'crumpled' glass window (I've no idea what the glass is called).
In looking for his work online, I came across several John Maccarthy's, one abstract, and a John T Mccarthy producing poster-like work similar to the comic-style in Jenny's post above.
In looking for his work online, I came across several John Maccarthy's, one abstract, and a John T Mccarthy producing poster-like work similar to the comic-style in Jenny's post above. 
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I have to agree in the main with much of what Robert has concluded.
I don’t care for such gimmicky representational portraits of famous people, (or any person), whether achieved in paint or digitally using one of many filters that are available in Photoshop - I can’t see any point in it, apart from trying to achieve something different, just because you can…
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by Alan Bickley
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Dixie the little devil - yes, that makes sense! We do of course need to see as great a variety of work as possible, and we won't be open to all of it; arteries harden, minds can close - so long as work has some element of, well, work in it, it'll be worth seeing and discussing. And never dismiss the value of play - the snag with the art world is so often the money: play, unconventional treatments, turn into profitable trends, and then stultification sets in. As one-offs, I might be less sniffy about those works - as a theme: well, it palled at some speed.