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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread , it one of our post artwork in any medium, any style or mixed media , sketch and full drawings , the subject must be Figures . I have selected five artists whose work I have not seen before, the first fire of a list on findartconnoisseur.com . Do have a look online and finds any you particularly like. 1. Robin Cole oil on linen 24x 30 in. 2. Marianna Foster oil on canvas 24x30 in 3. Matthew Bird watercolour on paper 15x22 in 4 Palden Hamilton oil on aluminium composite panel  5. Stephanie Deshpande oil on linen30x40 in.

Tessa Gwynne

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I am on grandma duty today so will re engage adult brain when I get home! I love figure work so looking forward to seeing what everyone picks- good start Dixie. One quick pick- as a youngster I loved El Greco- still do.

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Carol .

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I found the painting by Robin Cole quite engaging, mainly the subject of picking berries in a conifer forest. Interesting!

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Lewis Cooper

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Love figure drawings.  LURID...CATASTROPHIC...LOW BROW are some of the tags applied to Walter Molino's work.  He was an Italian Illustrator from the 1950s-1970s from the era of illustrated magazines when artists were used for the illustrations rather than photos.  He was immensely popular chiefly in Italy and France, famed for his illustrations of catastrophes among other things.  Odd that disaster should be so popular, perhaps seeing such work and knowing it was a figment of someone's imagination allowed viewers a vicarious pleasure as they supped their coffee while reading the latest magazine. It was his drawings that first attracted me to him... Loose with a cartoon edge, great gestural figure work. Now for some disasters to cheer you all up... He illustrated numerous women's magazines, and his pictures of women sorting out men were very popular... Many of his 'normal' pictures featured the movie stars of the day.  Here, La LOREN serves pizzas. Well, I think I've successfully lowered the tone, but the fact is many of these illustrator's figure work was exceptional even if featured in 'low brow' magazines. I like all of Paul's choices...great work.  I admire EL GRECO also.  Which doesn't stop me admiring Molino's work too.
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Tony Auffret

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There are two figure paintings whose images have haunted me since I first saw them in the 1970's. The first is John Singer Sargent's Lady Agnew of Lochnaw which is in the collection the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. The second is Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Madame Charles Max, which I have to admit reminds me of a lady I once knew.  It is in the collection of the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, though I saw it in the 1979/1980 Post Impressionist exhibition at the Royal Academy.  Sadly it was not on display when I visited the Musée D'Orsay in 2024 - not that I realised it at the time as there were way too many other masterpieces to blow my mind away.
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Russell Edwards

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Para Jamparsi - a portrait study capturing vulnerability, age, and human emotion... I wouldn't hang it on my wall but it's a great painting.
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Russell Edwards

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Jenifer Anderson - Scottish artist - beautifully painted piece 
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John Graham Inkson

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Para Jamparis and Jenifer Anderson, such  awesome paintings. So full of feeling.
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Lewis Cooper

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Lovely work.  A couple more...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Lovely stuff - the colour,  the  idiosyncracy, the  humour and character - that applies to ALL of these. 

Tessa Gwynne

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Wonderful work all round but Lew’s disaster dramas are terrific!

Jenny Harris

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Donna Young - we have already looked at some of her work in a previous Inspirations thread.
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