Surrealism is destructive, but.....

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Great job Michael of a great man.

Posted by andre mulard on Wed 03 Aug 08:12:41

Good likeness off this famous artist, strange and weird maybe but a genius in his own way.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Wed 03 Aug 08:15:17

You are producing some excellent stuff. This is great.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Wed 03 Aug 08:19:12

Wow! A prince no less! Love this Mick.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Wed 03 Aug 09:00:44

Excellent Michael, once again!

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Wed 03 Aug 09:33:09

Super piece Michael.

Posted by Henry Martin on Wed 03 Aug 09:53:41

Great improvement in your portraits, Michael. This is a very good portrait, there is great likeness and it is very expressive.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Wed 03 Aug 12:47:55

Thank you Andre, Stephen, Gudrun, Adele, Marjorie, Henry and Cesare. Sometimes they come out fine, other times not. You win some, you lose some. Hopefully I'll win more than I lose.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 03 Aug 13:47:00

Super pastel Micheal.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Wed 03 Aug 14:34:18

Thank you Margaret.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 03 Aug 14:47:46

Brilliant likeness Micheal, one of your winners!

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Wed 03 Aug 19:02:22

Thanks Fiona.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Wed 03 Aug 19:13:45

A really good expressive portrait Michael.

Posted by Louise Naimian on Thu 04 Aug 08:53:04

Very dashing! Great likeness Michael.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Thu 04 Aug 09:02:19

Thanks Louise and Carole.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 04 Aug 09:09:01

Super pastel painting, Michael.. love the expression and especially that 'tash!

Posted by heather adams on Thu 04 Aug 18:51:40

Thanks very much Heather.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sat 06 Aug 19:44:45

Hang on Studio Wall

03/08/2016

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Pastel, based on an Internet photograph. 'Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision' (S. Dali). One other similarity I have with Dali is his love of everything that is gilded and excessive and his passion for luxury and his love of oriental clothes, which he put down to Arab ancestry. However, I put mine down to my Irish ancestry and my direct DNA fingerprint back to the O'Conor, Kings of Ireland.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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