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Within this week's Gallery Crawl promo is a riddle of sorts....
Q: Which of these two art works is the original image?
A: Neither.
Q: Who painted the original?
A: I don't know.
Q: Does it matter?
A: Neither.
Q: Who painted the original?
A: I don't know.
Q: Does it matter?
posted by Bill Pocock at 7:35:00 p.m.
4 Comments:
What a great work. This is a beautiful image.
I absolutely agree. It would be nice to know which contemporary artist did it. The guy who did these two images actually ripped it off the original. He's a conceptual artist, I guess. He makes smaller versions of actual original art.
I'd like to see the larger original for the impact. The copyist alters the washed background, but I belief the portrait is scanned.
Bill I don't understand these look like paintings to me, they are just photographs of someone else's work but manipulated by the artist?
I think so.
Scanned? I dunno.
Clever fakes? Maybe.
Don't think he's riffin' on the stuff, not painting the images with, for example, ironic twists.
Put in an offer to buy one of his magic-marker price signs as I think it's some of the best work I've seen on show in a long time. They really struck me when I went into the gallery at first, because I've never seen such brash commercialism. Toronto artists and co-op rental 'galleries' could use a good dose of this and a lot less precious navel gazing.
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