wine & art

I saw a number of such paintings at a Laguna Beach art gallery last week.

Tom S

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Tom,

Would you share the name of the gallery, if you recall... or approximate location??? I know of two artists specializing in 'wine art' but can't recall their names. This gallery might answer a need I have. Thanks.

Midlife

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Guy Buffet?

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In the Atlanta, GA area (Alpharetta/Roswell), there's a "photo-realist" painter named Arvid (Tom?) that paints wine bottles/corks/glasses/stains... A google search should easily find him. Jack H.

Basically, you take Hwy. 133 all the way to the beach, turn left onto PCH, and drive about 6 blocks up a gentle hill. The gallery is toward the top of the hill and on the left side of the street.

They had photo-realistic pictures of bottles, corkscrews and glasses, as well as some impressionistic renderings of vineyards etc.

Tom S

Check out the work of Michael Godard...

We picked up a couple of paintings on a cruise.

I saw some of his work at the gallery in Laguna Beach that I mentioned in another post. Very impressive - and quite expen$ive.

Tom S

You might like to look at

. I believe this company is in Canada, but they ship all over the US also. They make some of the best reproductions of famous paintings around using a process that captures all of the "brushstrokes" in 3D depth, use good canvas and oils, and use very good frames. They are not cheap, but not many can afford the original oils from the best painters. They have a few paintings on the subject of food and drink. The star of their current offering is 40 x 56 inch painting by Yuri Tremler called Happy Hour - very abstract. It is limited to an edition of 450, and is hand signed by the artist. It costs US$ 1,495 plus shipping. They also have some nice paintings of wine bottles with glasses by Faynan that are in the photo-realistic style, are 25 x 18 inches, and cost only about $200 each. There also are some wine bottle scenes by Amineris that are nice and cost a few hundred dollars.

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Around New Orleans is a painter named Diego Lukezic, originally from Buenos Aires. A search under "Diego Lukezic" should deliver. The Martin LaBorde gallery there has shown his stuff.

There is a story about this guy, as a child, befriending the dog of a Tango street musician in BA; that dog figures now (large or small) in much of his work. Anyway, the painter seems to have an interest in wine and wine making, and those themes appear, at least obliquely, in some of the paintings.

(I grew up around paintings and painters and painting classes because of family professions and those of family friends; but besides an occasional wine bottle in a traditional European-style still-life study, I don't remember much interest in wine genre paintings in those days. Or dog genre paintings for that matter except, of course, for Landseer and the generic puppies-with-big-eyes product sometimes offered in the US at gas stations.)

-- Max

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