Taps (Acrylic on Canvas)

(Value Village Art Gallery Favorite)

Okay. So I don't really know what's up with this painting. It is so...trendy-feeling I initially wondered if it might not actually be retail/commercial art. I know, I know: it certainly doesn't look like what you might find in the Home Decor section of Target. But: it has that Hipster Esthetic to it that makes this feel commercial in a way. Add to all this the fact that there were older price tags on this thing, not counting the Value Village one: one on the back for $5 and one on the front for $3 - what's THAT all about?!? This painting, if not machine-painted or screen printed, is worth ten times those amounts all day long. So. I dunno what to make of this. If it's amateur art, it stays in the gallery AND as a Favorite. If someone can research this and demonstrate to me that it's a Ringer, it'll get removed.

On to the guts of this review. I like it. It's intentionally cartoony so we won't hold the two-dimensionalness of the Pale Ale tap against it: it's a feature, not a bug. Nor will we hold the oft-overdone semi-"Starry Night" swirls against it, since beer drunks often see such swirls in Real Life. 

This is a fun, engaging painting and while my wife and I don't have the right place for it in our home, I wish we did so that I could have bought this.

(Postscript: I went back a couple of hours later and bought it anyway. We made a place for it.)

To the assumedly-legit amateur artist who painted this: good work! 👍