Tate: Snapshot Painting

[FPjohn]

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/6570e052-ff60-11e0-aa11-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1c7xQ7VfW

Yours
FPJ

 

[paulfish4570]

tres enlightening. thank you much for the link.

 

[Sparrow]

Ah, a bit like Dylan then ...

 

[JOE1951]

Ah, a bit like Dylan then ...

BIG difference, quoting the article:

"All seven were keen amateur photographers, though it is unlikely that any of them would have considered their tiny snapshots important at the time..."

 

[MickH]

Interesting that in two of the examples given the painting pre-dates the photograph.

 

[Sparrow]

Interesting that in two of the examples given the painting pre-dates the photograph.

Yep, spooky that ... but then why spoil a good hypothesis with a few inconvenient truths.

 

[Sparrow]

BIG difference, quoting the article:

"All seven were keen amateur photographers, though it is unlikely that any of them would have considered their tiny snapshots important at the time..."

Really? I don't see what difference the status of the photographer makes

 

[paulfish4570]

i think in a couple of those cases, the photo were representative of what the painter might have seen at the time. it is clear in one, for example, that the painter apparently made ther photo AND painted the picture.
lest we forget, it was only in the past couple of years that picasso was revealed to have been a shutterbug ... 🙂
as for dylan, i just do not care about his paintings. it is interesting, though, he has been accused of plagiarism throughout his musical career.