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Still Life with Teapot and Fan – Wang Weidong‏

Still Life with Teapot and Fan by Wang Weidong

                           ” Still Life with Teapot and Fan ” 
 
                                       
Wang Weidong  
 
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                despite bifurcations in the direction of abstract art – Impressionism Surrealism, Expressionism, Pop – representational art, with its evident demands on the artist – formal excellence, not just heat and heart – still inspires perhaps our foremost admiration 
 
perhaps it’s true however that still lifes, nearly by definition, are bloodless, as is to my mind, here again, this exquisite nevertheless “Teapot“, which reaches out to your intellect rather than to your emotions
 
it speaks of duty rather than love, tradition rather than innovation, a nostalgia for security, conformity, philosophy perhaps, and ultimately by inference faith and trust  
 
if you let your sense of taste do the talking
  
 
Richard

                  

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Peter Doig

  Peter Doig, Friday 13th 1999    Peter Doig
 
         Friday 13th, 1999            Reflection (What Does Your Soul 
                                                          Look Like?), 1996
                                                                                                                                                                           

                                Peter Doig

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                                                                                                                                         at the Tate Britain – find it at “tate.org.uk” – this painter is creating a sensation

a one-time Canadian he has become “the most expensive living artist in Europe when one of his paintings, “White Canoe”, changed hands for almost $12-million at Sotheby’s”, according to the “Globe and Mail

abstract art, I thought, is finding its way back to realism

bravo

                                                                                                                                                                Richard
 
 

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