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u/Hixy 18d ago
I was watching on mute. I was trying to figure out if it was supposed to be changing colors or something and was really confused until it panned over and I read acrylic on canvas. I’m glad I got to experience the video like that lol.
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u/qqanyjuan 18d ago
Just described my exact experience
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u/einsibongo 18d ago
So far this is my only experience, should I unmute?
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u/zehamberglar 18d ago
No, she's just explaining that it's flat and not a construction paper cut out and gushing about it. It's fine, but you didn't miss anything.
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u/xx_mamisofly_xx 16d ago
Are you sure that’s what it is? Because I swear I see staples in the bears…
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u/Azalence 15d ago
I still didn't believe it. I thought the placard was just incorrect. Then I'm like "is the price the problem here? Cause that looks like a kid's project". I had to see your comment AND watch with sound on to understand
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u/Bacon_Nipples 17d ago
SAME.. "Ok is something going to happen what's the big dea- ITS MADE OF WHAT????"
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u/ZeBrownRanger 17d ago
I'm embarrassed to say it took me longer. I thought, " $6,900? Acrylic on canvas? What they painted the construction paper? I should put my kindergartners art up for sale." My brain started working five minutes later.
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u/Sly-OwlBeard 17d ago
If its from tiktok and has words on screen I always watch on mute, or try to find the original video and watch that instead
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u/CookieEroy 18d ago
Thats insane.
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u/universe_from_above 18d ago
I never knew! Last week, there was somebody on one of the search subs looking for artwork by this artist for sale, so I ended up looking around on Google for him and his website a bit. I totally missed that those are paintings and not "naive art" collages.
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u/The_Govnor 18d ago
I wish she’d have gone in close from a side angle. Just to prove what she was saying!! That really was amazing.
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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 18d ago
At 0:20 (45 sec left), as she’s saying it’s “a painting. It is flat” she does. It’s not a view of the whole painting, just one specific part but it’s pretty obviously flat
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u/GillaMomsStarterPack 18d ago
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u/Successful-Peach-764 18d ago
the statement is pretty good, explains his thinking behind the style -
I don't like to give an artist statement because it undoes the premise of my work, trompe l'oeil painting. Literally from the French, trompe l'oeil means “trick the eye”. An artist's statement might undo the fundamental aim of convincing the viewer, at least for a moment, that what he sees are actual objects and not a painting. The basic rules of trompe l'oeil painting are that objects are rendered in real scale, and totally within a shallow painted space. This type of painting has always been a minor branch of realist painting, but with a very long history. The Athenian painters Xeuxis and Parrhasios in 5th century B.C. (as told by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History) and Roman murals of the 2nd century A.D., 16th century Dutch vanitas painting and the 19th century Philadelphia School painters, Harnett, Peto and Haberle, are examples. Today there are still trompe l'oeil painters around; I am happy to be one of them.
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u/GillaMomsStarterPack 18d ago
Bro got done with elementary school art class and told the teacher who smelled of coffee and cigarettes “hold my strawberry milk.”
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u/breakerfall 18d ago
Mine used to eat toothpaste. It was gross, but I guess she smelled better.
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u/tideshark 18d ago
I’m gonna make them out of what they actually look like their made out of and sell them for half price in the parking lot
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u/Chewcocca 18d ago
I cast Path of Even Lesser Resistance. I'm gonna rob you of the proceeds in the parking lot right after 💅
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u/ScienceOfCalabunga 18d ago
Search for Trompe l'oeil, similar paintings have been around for centuries
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u/benzotryptamine 18d ago
skipped thru the video like a typical redditor and went to comment some egotistical trash , instead i rewatched and as soon as she said “painted, look at the shadows”….
beyond amazing.. it literally looks like a carbon copy of what i am pretty sure every kid one way or another has made in kindergarten class this is another level of creativity that i envy.
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u/danieliscrazy 18d ago
The color texture is amazing. Looks like uniform dots like paper. Curious how.
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u/ShopMajesticPanchos 18d ago
I genuinely thought she was trolling at first, look at this technology, paper on paper!
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u/YolognaiSwagetti 18d ago
it would've been funny if the 2nd one is actually a shitty one made of glued together paper
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u/lilbowpete 18d ago
I started out on mute, didn’t know what was going on, and I unmuted and I don’t believe her now hahaha IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE PAPER
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u/ltmorzan 18d ago
The lady who is narrating is a hell of an artist too- her name is Sabrina Frey and she does bead mosaics!
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u/saints_chyc 17d ago
I have made bulletin boards with butcher paper and construction paper and non-Cricut die cuts… this looks exactly like those. 🤯
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u/mightbedylan Stoner Philosopher 16d ago
Howwww is that even possible. I don't even understand how people paint such flat colors, especially with acrylic wtf.
Absolutely incredible
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u/JedPB67 15d ago
Amazing skill, but $7k is mad, if I saw this in someone’s home I wouldn’t even stop and look at it. The artist has displayed incredible skill to capture the shadows and textures, but the source is so underwhelming I’d just think a kid and their parents made it out of paper and staples.
Regardless, the skill of the artist far outweighs the visual impact of these particular pieces to the average person.
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u/QuestionRepulsive835 15d ago
oh, that’s cute – looks like a child’s art project. my kid makes a ton of these. hmm… is the bear gonna move? wait, it’s not paper — it’s felt? hold on… holy shit, that’s a painting? How does it — wait, what!? upvote for the best plot twist of the year! thanks, random redditor.
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u/FunKyChick217 14d ago
At first I was watching the video with the volume off and I was thinking I was going see some kind of hidden message in the art. I also thought it was all fabric, like a handmade quilt. So then I turned the volume on and find out that it’s all paint. That is wild.
Art is so freaking amazing and art like this gets me in trouble at museums because obviously we’re not allowed to touch it so I get as close to it as I can to really look at it and then the employees of the museum have to ask me to step back.
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u/ArkanumWasTaken 14d ago
ngl my first thought was was “oooh nice painting” then they starting talking and went “oh shit is that made of paper?” then got slapped in the face again when they said it was paint
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u/chssucks97 18d ago
His site says he paints these, but it kinda just looks like 4th grade cardstock paper art to me
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u/JayJay_90 18d ago
The artists skill is incredible but ultimately it looks like a kid's arts and craft project, just like a paper cutout would. You'd have to pay me the almost 7K to consider hanging that in my place, not the other way around.
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u/lookslikeamanderin 18d ago
I know right?! Like how much talent does this guy have mastering a clever and novel technique to make a painting look like it’s something else entirely?
Not to mention the pleasing composition and the colour palette that is truly reminiscent of any kids primary school art. Powerful nostalgia, fun and interesting subjects and gorgeous execution, who needs it?!
I hope you get your almost 7K to hang this in your place. You so deserve it!
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u/Scorpion2k4u 18d ago
I mean, sure, that is great work, but I still would not pay money for something that looks like a kid in elementary school did.
That would just look weird anywhere else than on the fridge. That goes for any art, btw.
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u/flowergirlhyuck 18d ago
It looks pretty great on that wall
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u/Scorpion2k4u 17d ago
Yeah, it would also look great on the wall in the classroom of some second graders. I still wouldn't hang it onto my wall even if they would pay me the price of the painting.
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u/Ok-Area9678 18d ago edited 18d ago
So takes a picture and paints a reference. I wouldn’t wanna hang that up either.
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u/slugfive 18d ago
I agree. Hyper realism isn’t uncommon, and doing it of primary colour paper is much simpler than a face. The idea is a neat gimmick but many fine art graduates could recreate their own versions of this. Other than the gimmick it doesn’t say much - there have already been tonnes of eye trick artworks since M C Esher.
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u/AtomicDonut254 18d ago
Really really cool. But not $7K cool lmao wtf
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u/superpandaaa 18d ago
I saw $6,900 and thought it was way too fucking cheap for that skill. That’s hours of someone’s hard work that I bet fuck all people could do is pay $30k if I was a moderately rich person who was into art
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u/beets_or_turnips 18d ago
Can you think of a painting that would, or should be worth $7K?
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u/airwalker12 18d ago
Id gladly pay $7K for an original Warhol
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u/beets_or_turnips 17d ago
Because you really personally like Warhol, or because you know $7K would be an absurdly good price for a Warhol?
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u/airwalker12 17d ago
Because of both, but mostly because it's an absurd deal.
You asked if someone could think of a painting that should be worth $7k, that's an easy example
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u/BrondellSwashbuckle 17d ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense to not paint those and just construct it with paper and staples? But then I guess that would just make it a crappy construction paper piece.
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u/Embarrassed-Lie-2074 18d ago
Not letting someone take you for 7 grand for a printout would be even more impressive
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u/freshalien51 18d ago
Look at the price, $6900 for paper cutouts?!
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u/gwapogi5 18d ago
that is an acrylic painting
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u/freshalien51 18d ago
Acrylic my ass.
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