| [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #273710] |
Mi, 24 Mai 2006 07:06 |
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A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
wall. The artist has a remarkable ability to do highly-detailed
photographic reality, but these pictures are surreal. There's one of
Elephants with fish swimming in the air near them. Most of them have a
really prominent full moon in the sky. There are lions and tigers and
rhinos and at least one gorilla in the pictures. They are really beautiful.
Anybody recognize the description and know the name of the artist or
calendar company?
-Rocky
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #273810 ] |
Mi, 24 Mai 2006 19:17 |
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Rocky Frisco wrote:
> A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
> they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
> identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
> wall. The artist has a remarkable ability to do highly-detailed
> photographic reality, but these pictures are surreal. There's one of
> Elephants with fish swimming in the air near them. Most of them have a
> really prominent full moon in the sky. There are lions and tigers and
> rhinos and at least one gorilla in the pictures. They are really beautiful.
Tigers, in Africa? Out of a zoo? You're right, that is surreal. :-)
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #273848 ] |
Mi, 24 Mai 2006 22:03 |
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Jens Ayton wrote:
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
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>>A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
>>they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
>>identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
>>wall. The artist has a remarkable ability to do highly-detailed
>>photographic reality, but these pictures are surreal. There's one of
>>Elephants with fish swimming in the air near them. Most of them have a
>>really prominent full moon in the sky. There are lions and tigers and
>>rhinos and at least one gorilla in the pictures. They are really beautiful.
>
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> Tigers, in Africa? Out of a zoo? You're right, that is surreal. :-)
No, most of the art depicted African wildlife, but not all did.
-Rocky
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #274041 ] |
Do, 25 Mai 2006 23:53 |
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:06:58 -0500, Rocky Frisco wrote:
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> A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
> they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
> identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
> wall. The artist has a remarkable ability to do highly-detailed
> photographic reality, but these pictures are surreal. There's one of
> Elephants with fish swimming in the air near them. Most of them have a
> really prominent full moon in the sky. There are lions and tigers and
> rhinos and at least one gorilla in the pictures. They are really beautiful.
>
> Anybody recognize the description and know the name of the artist or
> calendar company?
Hi again Rocky, I don't actually recognize them from any particular
artist, but the nearest I found on the my google that they might sound
a little like are from this one, Guy Coheleach - take a look at this lot!
http://www.guysart.com/
Hope that helps
Sofie
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #274080 ] |
Fr, 26 Mai 2006 04:37 |
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Sofia wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:06:58 -0500, Rocky Frisco wrote:
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>
>>A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
>>they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
>>identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
>>wall. The artist has a remarkable ability to do highly-detailed
>>photographic reality, but these pictures are surreal. There's one of
>>Elephants with fish swimming in the air near them. Most of them have a
>>really prominent full moon in the sky. There are lions and tigers and
>>rhinos and at least one gorilla in the pictures. They are really beautiful.
>>
>>Anybody recognize the description and know the name of the artist or
>>calendar company?
>
>
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> Hi again Rocky, I don't actually recognize them from any particular
> artist, but the nearest I found on the my google that they might sound
> a little like are from this one, Guy Coheleach - take a look at this lot!
>
> http://www.guysart.com/
>
>
> Hope that helps
Sofie, dear, that's not the artist I was looking for, but THANKS! What
beautiful work!!
-Rocky
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #274740 ] |
So, 28 Mai 2006 01:26 |
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Rocky Frisco wrote:
> A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
> they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
> identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
> wall.
I would have tried to get some of the information from the back, either
by loosening the glue or some trick or other to see through the paper.
This last is probably not going to work because of heavy stock.
Ask you friend to *please* try to lift one or two corners to see if you
can find out a little more about the images. Even the year the calendar
was published in or the month of one of the the images would help. With
luck you'll find out the name of the publisher.
How to loosen the glue will vary with type of glue, but moisture or heat
will often do the trick.
Alternatively, take some pictures of them and make them available to the
group, maybe one of us recognise the style, if we don't know the image
itself.
Pudde.
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| Re: [O[ Oracle -- African Art Calendar [message #274881 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 07:36 |
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Pudde Fjord wrote:
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>
>> A friend has the most gorgeous pictures on his rec-room wall. He says
>> they are pages out of a calendar he bought one year. There's no
>> identifying information on the front of them and they are glued to the
>> wall.
>
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> I would have tried to get some of the information from the back, either
> by loosening the glue or some trick or other to see through the paper.
> This last is probably not going to work because of heavy stock.
>
> Ask you friend to *please* try to lift one or two corners to see if you
> can find out a little more about the images. Even the year the calendar
> was published in or the month of one of the the images would help. With
> luck you'll find out the name of the publisher.
>
> How to loosen the glue will vary with type of glue, but moisture or heat
> will often do the trick.
>
> Alternatively, take some pictures of them and make them available to the
> group, maybe one of us recognise the style, if we don't know the image
> itself.
That's it! I'll do the photo trick; wouldn't want to risk harming them.
-Rocky
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O'Toole's Corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
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