You post some beautiful images, John, but you'd better have your lens repaired. That's a nasty diagonal scratch. I hear they have a plastic compound that you just paint on the lens with a paint roller, and it makes the scratches disappear.
This has a Picasso look to it. Did he help with this portrait.
My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust . . . . The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." ~ Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
If you go on this way, your name may be added to this list, John: Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Willem den Broeder, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Willem van Leusden, Joan Miró, Jopie Moesman, Yves Tanguy, Paul Klee, Willem Wagenaar, Alberto Giacometti, and Zdzisław Beksiński.
I like that there is so much to explore and consider. I agree with Tick, such beautiful shapes and color tones. For some reason I sense a trapped feeling and longing. I have questions yet I don't want to know... Excellent!
It appears, John, that you're developing a gallery within a gallery here. These last four are as unique from your previous work as anything can be, much the way a traditional canvas artist will try something completely new to see if it "works." I come from the traditional art background (a fine art major, 30+ years ago, and still in that field...somewhat [geez, I'm rambling like Les!!!]) and I can tell you this style you're experimenting with does, indeed, "work." Am looking forward to more in various categories (ie., flora, fauna, machines, etc. - the possibilities are endless - and even if I don't comment on everything, I am still viewing). Some folks don't care for the "sharing" concept in comments but I know you are and we appreciate it. Thanks for opening us up to something different.
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This is not only well done, it is well thought out. I especially like how seamlessly the lower torso of the horizontal female is also the upper torso of the vertical female. I really can see this on a wall in a gallery. Excellent work.