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Atch  22 | 4287
7 Dec 2024   #121
Kitsch, but nice kitsch.

Perfect image for a Christmas card :) Not that kitsch really. Quite beautifully rendered.

The Halifax one is really striking and evocative.
Feniks  1 | 922
7 Dec 2024   #122
The ladies of the Forum in conversation :)

My immediate thought is of 'Little Women', although Loiusa May Alcott probably didn't have women that looked like that in mind.

Halifax

Something about this appeals to me although my first thought was 'dark satanic mills'.
pawian  226 | 27461
7 Dec 2024   #123
My immediate thought is of 'Little Women',

Laurie was missing in the pic. Disregarding him by Atch was unfair.
:):):)
jon357  73 | 24374
13 Feb 2025   #124
An interesting one. By an American artist that I wasn't familiar with until today.

Benjamin Britt (1923 - 1996) - Abstract (Untitled), c. 1950s, oil on Masonite,


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jon357  73 | 24374
2 Jun 2025   #125
A print of this one is going back on my wall as soon as the decorators finish this week.

Robin Hood's Bay, Albert Wainwright 1930


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Alien  28 | 6952
6 Jun 2025   #126
Robin Hood's Bay, Albert Wainwright 1930

He reminds me a bit of the Polish Nikifor.
jon357  73 | 24374
6 Jun 2025   #127
A Similar age. Similar style too.

Nikifor, Nowy Sącz


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jon357  73 | 24374
10 Jun 2025   #128
An orc, but a good artist. Active in the 80s and 90s.
Konstantin Batinkov. Untitled.


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Alien  28 | 6952
11 Jun 2025   #129
orc, but a good artist. Active in the 80s and 90s

As you can see, Russians love military themes.
jon357  73 | 24374
11 Jun 2025   #130
Another one by Batinkov. He may be an orc, but he can draw.


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jon357  73 | 24374
12 Jun 2025   #131
More from the orc Batinkov. Katsap or not, he knows how to paint.
This one is called "A Lathe Operator, 6th Grade, in a good mood (Токарь 6 разряда в хорошем настроении).


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jon357  73 | 24374
16 Jun 2025   #132
A Ticket to Ride.
Sandra Wood


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Alien  28 | 6952
17 Jun 2025   #133
How different this world used to be. All white faces, women with headscarves, no crowds on the bus...
jon357  73 | 24374
17 Jun 2025   #134
All white faces

I don't think the world was ever like that. it was quieter and more sociable pre-technology though the pic is set ini Manchester which was never really pre-technology since it was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.

Plus. whenever there were fewer white people in the Americas or brown people in Europe it was neither better nor worse. Unless you were a Native American or African, in which case it was much better but far more boring.

The pic is idealised. The buses were full, the tip deck was smoky and the people ill-fed and worn out by very hard work while others sipped champagne.


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