Regulars here (HA! "Regulars": what are those?!?) might recall from previous comments on my part that I do not generally like to include multiple i.e. extremely large numbers of paintings by any one person. So far there have been two intentional and enthusiastic exceptions to that rule on my part due to the quality and/or HEART displayed by the artistes in question. Previously, the record was sixteen (fifteen at once and then a forgotten sixteenth added the following day.) Well TODAY my friends that record has been beaten. Seventeen! Count 'em! SEVENTEEN PAINTINGS by the same person have been found at VV on the same day. Whew! Now, let's be honest: some of these paintings are not so great. BUT: I would stipulate that the majority of them exceed in quality probably 70% of the objets d'art displayed on these here premises. This person PAINTS, my friends.
My favorites? Numbers eight, nine, and eleven. Oh and number fifteen (despite the fish. It's a nice fish. I just don't like fish. Or birds.)
My least favorites? Doesn't matter. But half of my least favorite ones have specific things in them that I do like. In other words, even some of the ones I don't like aren't "across-the-board" awful in the way some paintings, by other artists, manage to be.
The other half? Yeah, they're not so great. It's okay though. There's plenty of stuff here for any aspiring artist to be reasonably proud of.
And to clarify: I included number eleven mainly because, for once, we have a decent-quality "Van Gogh sky swirls" homage/rip-off on our hands. I tried doing them myself one time and it was waaaaay harder than I expected it to be. Mine looked rather like swirls of talentlessness superimposed upon an apocalypse-colored sky. The canvas in question is probably in a landfill. If mankind is lucky.
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