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Inspiration from Artists Wk 165 : Featuring Artists - Slava Fokk and Colin Burns .
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Welcome to this weeks thread , the featuring artists this week are :
Slava Fokk and Colin Burns , hope I’ve spelled the name correctly Lew.
Lewis will open this week with his introduction to Slava Fokk , on Wednesday I will introduce Colin Burns .
Have a good week and enjoy your art , most importantly keep well and safe .
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Slava's work seems to fall into three groups for me. The first, his older work, is painted realistically and he uses collage etc for the background...like this...
The second is a highly stylised almost caricature style...like this...
The last, and latest of his artistic development, is what's been described as a form of retro art deco style. This is how I discovered him. I like art deco and was searching for deco artists. I particularly like the painting below. He's painted the face with some realism, but very stylised...the girls face is completely straight in a line from her forehead down to the end of her nose...it would be very odd to see that in real life. The background and girl's hair is painted in flat colours, the flower is semi-realistic and almost plastic in appearance. Some of the original deco artists painted in this 'plastic' style (notably Tamara De Lempicka). It's a style I like very much...
I discovered this artist many years ago. I tend to save examples of work that I like, if only so that I can remember the name. Since doing that, and getting back to him for this thread, I note he appears to be concentrating on the retro deco style. Seeing so many together they begin to look the same. That said they are carefully painted, and I do admire them.
When we really like an artist, our highest accolade seems to be 'I'd have it on my wall'. In that fantasy world where money is no problem, and I have endless walls, I'd cheerfully have at least half-a-dozen of this artist's work on my walls.
You may think differently.
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Lew many thanks for the excellent introduction, full,of information as usual . Looking at his work for the first time I’m impressed by it , it’s not what I would particularly look for but that’s the beauty of this thread we loo and see work we would not normally bother about . Do I like it ,I think I do to be honest and that rather surprises me as I to often make a decision and don’t look further, I will be looking at his work over the next couple of day as I’m intrigued by it .
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Extraordinary range of images. Perhaps most curious of all, a quick search for the seemingly iconic 'The Last Trolleybus' diploma work revealed rather little, certainly not clear if it was a single piece or a portfolio. Either way I found no images. Perhaps I should try harder but in the meantime I chose these three. The first because it puts me in mind of Dutch masterpieces, the second because it is unashamedly modern and the last because it was totally unexpected.
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In my summary above I said he has three 'styles' of art. Tony's post reminded me that it should be four. He's produced a series of drawings where he juxtaposes ancient art with modern machinery. Whilst I think they are superbly drawn, they don't appeal to me as a concept, so I suppose I mentally side-lined them...
As you'll have noticed, he uses gold and silver leaf in some paintings, he also makes stencils. See below...this pic also shows a larger version of that painting shown in progress above. I like this painting very much...
He also paints in what we might describe as 'classical style', although I'm seeing elements of deco in the painting below...
I very much like what, in my personal lexicon of art, I've dubbed his 'caricature' style. Although he may not see it that way. He gives the same care and attention to these as he gives to all his work...
As you'll have noticed, he uses gold and silver leaf in some paintings, he also makes stencils. See below...this pic also shows a larger version of that painting shown in progress above. I like this painting very much...
He also paints in what we might describe as 'classical style', although I'm seeing elements of deco in the painting below...
I very much like what, in my personal lexicon of art, I've dubbed his 'caricature' style. Although he may not see it that way. He gives the same care and attention to these as he gives to all his work...
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I think people have enjoyed it, Lew - I found his work inventive and interesting, but I didn't comment because, well.... I don't actually like it, on the whole... no closely analysed reason, it just doesn't float my boat. But what these posts do is add to our artistic vocabulary, to put it a bit oddly maybe: they open up a world of which we might otherwise have been ignorant, and I'd certainly have been ignorant of this artist but for this thread. And I do think that's quite important, whether a particular artist resonates with us as individuals or not.
So - thank you!