Blank Canvas 11 Chainsawhands

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hirschy75
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:13 pm

Actually really like this
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:37 pm

i like it too. last year when i went to the moma museum in san francisco they had a canvas like this. it was just 2 blank canvases side by side and they said the the art of it was the the line separating the 2.haha.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:09 pm

i think this is great. i love the quote associated with it as well.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:20 pm

Reminds me a whole lot of a Rene Magritte painting, but I can't recall which one. It was a guy with a bowler hat standing in a museum looking at a blank painting on the wall, where the walls were a bright daytime sky with puffy white cloudys. I'll have to find and post it here, unless someone knows what I'm referring to and can post it.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:21 pm

yes, this may be my favorite chainsawhands - though i still like merry christmas jesus alot.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:35 pm

Well, my memory wasn't quite accurate. Magritte, yes... but it was Christopher Peterson's interpretation of Magritte. He did a lot of sketches for what turned out to be the poster for the opening shows in Northern California for Paul McCartney's US tour in 2002. Magritte was/is one of Sir Paul's favorite artists (in fact, Magritte's painting of a green apple became the Apple records logo back in the day). So, Peterson tinkered with lots of Magritte images before settling on the fairly famous one for those opening shows. Here are a couple of his concept sketches... sure looks a lot like this image to me:
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:22 pm

Rick_a_c wrote:Well, my memory wasn't quite accurate. Magritte, yes... but it was Christopher Peterson's interpretation of Magritte. He did a lot of sketches for what turned out to be the poster for the opening shows in Northern California for Paul McCartney's US tour in 2002. Magritte was/is one of Sir Paul's favorite artists (in fact, Magritte's painting of a green apple became the Apple records logo back in the day). So, Peterson tinkered with lots of Magritte images before settling on the fairly famous one for those opening shows. Here are a couple of his concept sketches... sure looks a lot like this image to me:
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Nice call. Wasn't aware of this.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:22 pm

the "with beauty all around" part really brings the work to life.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:29 pm

Actually Norman Rockwell for this one - "The Connoisseur."
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:31 pm

damn dwlfennell! great find! i still like the Chainsawhands version but now slightly less.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:46 pm

db23 wrote:damn dwlfennell! great find! i still like the Chainsawhands version but now slightly less.
yes, so apparently a combo of the two.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:11 pm

Sweet. Nice pull, dwlfennell.
It's funny, because I always called Peterson a 21st century Rockwell, with his Americana images of cars, trucks, billboards, neon signs and such. So, it makes sense to me that Chris would do this type of mixture.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:31 pm

Any idea on date/time/price etc?
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:46 pm

@nevermind651 for release time, it'll post on Friday and I'll post it here too. These are STUNNING in person. All individually spray painted.
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