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Vanitas - About the Art of Painting Framed Print
by Levin Rodriguez
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Vanitas - About the Art of Painting framed print by Levin Rodriguez. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Vanitas paintings were popular in XVII Century Holland, they also transcended to other times by French, German and other european painters. This... more
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Vanitas paintings were popular in XVII Century Holland, they also transcended to other times by French, German and other european painters. This particular piece theme is the arts and painting in particular. The sketch represents one of the three graces from Peter Paul Reubens iconic painting. It was normal for painters to emulate the great masters while studying.The sketch is meant as a symbol of a normal painter initiation, while the brushes and pallete are for later stages. The hourglass and watch are memento mori symbols reminding us that time is passing quickly.
About Levin Rodriguez
You love paintings, you would love to paint but you have trained yourself as a photographer. Can you merge your two artistic passions? I did…. I grew up admiring classic paintings, specially the Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age periods.There is one particular feature of Dutch Golden Age paintings that led me to believe that I could try to reproduce them. Their level of detail is unparalleled in painting history, they look like photographs. Some are so detailed, that they can trick you into the removal of an ant or to scare away a fly. I decided to use a photographic camera to replace the hard work of the brushes, paint, the strokes.This is how I came up with the concept of Photographic Painting, which is the creation of a...
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