Les peintures nostalgiques et l'esprit des films noirs

[mothwing]

In search for the most realistic oil painting of an open book I have ever seen (of which I had a postcard which I lost. Buggeration. It was by a German artist and probably over two-hundred years old. But I have really no idea whatsoever, and you can imagine what a search for "Book" and "oil painting" got me...), I stumbled upon two artists I really like - Jack Vettriano and Francine Van Hove.

I don't really know why, something about their paintings just appeals to me and makes me go "Pritteeh!" It's something between the situations they draw and the style which is - just pritteeh. Not fancy or mind-blowing - simply pritteeh.

Jack Vettriano:

His paintings, safe for this one and a couple of others, have a fairy-tale like unreal atmosphere about them which I really like. Here's one example for that:


I mean, where are these couples? Is that the sea? And "Dance me to the end of love" - that title is really a kitsch overload, but the picture is pretty nontheless. Pritteeeh, as I said.

Oh, and the man's from Fife, by the way. Fancy that.

and Francine Van Hove:

Loooook at that apple! And the hair! And the way she's holding that book! Really works for me, for some reason.


This woman is obsessed with reading and sleeping people, seriously. And naked women, curiously. She's drawn some of the most amazing sleeping people I've ever seen, too. Van Hove is a Parisienne.

Comments

[dstroyrofworlds.livejournal.com]

Of course she is obsessed with naked women, who isn't?
Firstly, they are sold well. That's the not so good plus-point.

But the other one is....they are looking just great.
Female bodies are already some kind of art, they are wonderful.
There is so much interesting to be painted about them...