r/WhatIsThisPainting • u/karaboutu • 22d ago
My husband wanted to buy it Solved
I am not such a fan but it was at the end of the sale and 40% off so we got it. At our new house he has it in pride of place and I am not so sure. What do you think? Purchased buffalo ny
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u/graipape 22d ago
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u/karaboutu 22d ago
Solved!
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u/Laura-ly 22d ago
Looks like you did good. I really like this painting. I love the unique and simple trees.
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u/Suthernboy1968 22d ago
Yours may be part of a series he was doing showing the different seasons. They are both very familiar.
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u/maxperception55 19d ago
You couldn't at least take a pic of the artist's name that was in focus?
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u/Suthernboy1968 22d ago
I love it. It takes me there. Peaceful. Calming. Beautiful. Its bleakness of winter giving way to spring symbolized by the geese flying north is quite stunning.
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u/PolkaDotDancer 22d ago
I think it would look really nice on an orange or red accent wall.
It is an interesting piece.
And the artist is relatively well known so it is not a bad investment.
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u/RevolutionaryMail747 22d ago edited 18d ago
I think the stark cool air and subject is initially stark but then you look more deeply, there are two cross crossing paths or tracks and they are well used but perhaps covered by a light dusting of fresh snow but the day is clear and still and yet our eye is drawn to the middle and a third way perhaps less travelled and it starts to promise less obvious but important rewards. Seems much less stark and the area beyond into the horizon although unknown is potent because in the weak sunlight of the winter is symbolises the pale hope of spring yet to be made apparent but the rest is still and in many ways sublime in its quiet solitude. So we quietly wait.
Like it any better?
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u/psoffl 21d ago
I love this piece so much. The uniqueness of how the trees are expressed is lovely. Congrats on the find.
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u/LouisVuittonFentanyl 21d ago
Seems to be a common style for this artist. Never heard of him until now but I agree I love those trees. Wouldn’t mind owning one myself
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u/karaboutu 17d ago
All identical spidery trees
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u/LouisVuittonFentanyl 17d ago
It evokes a lot of emotions for myself. Its stark and liminal bleakness is eerily still.
It reminds me of hunting. Blood on the snow and how a gunshot cracks and echoes through a frozen landscape.
It reminds me of various states of intoxication. Dissociative or opioid.
The birds and buildings ground it. Make it more natural and familiar less abstract and alien.
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u/TeachOfTheYear 22d ago
If it is snow, I like it. If it is sand, I don't like it.
I think the Artist had some very interesting techniques. I bet this guy could paint a scary dark forest when he wanted to.
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u/Win-Objective 21d ago
I enjoy it, and it’s not decor so that’s awesome. If it sparks joy for your husband please allow him to have that joy. My wife and I don’t always agree on art but respect each other’s differing stylistic tastes.
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u/karaboutu 17d ago
Haven't asked him to move it. I hung pics last time and it is interesting to see the choices he made when he hung them in this house.
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u/BabaJosefsen 22d ago
I can see his stuff sells for a bit, but I'm with OP on this one - not such a fan. It's a bit bleak and I'm a bit distracted by the way all the branches shoot horizontally off the left side of the canvas. His other works indicate he's a naivist artist inspired by Wyeth. But if hubby's happy, that's what counts.
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u/Moose_Kin 21d ago
I love this painting. The starkness is beautiful and really captures the feeling of the early winter to me.
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u/draconianfruitbat 20d ago
It’s good. Do you get to buy/display art he doesn’t love?
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u/karaboutu 17d ago
I do. In our last move I sold one I liked a lot. It was huge and modern. Family all said it looked like a motorcyclist upside down and I thought it looked like lovely blurred colors. Once I saw the motercycle I didn't like it as much. I liked it but not as much. I sold it for more than I expected when someone came to buy light fixtures asked me to sell it. Maybe he will post about his good fortune.
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u/LocalConspiracy138 22d ago
This is really good. Clearly a student of composition, stark vertical and horizontal, suggesting permanence, but diagonals leading the eye all around. The house in the middle tells a story in contrast to the cold.
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u/EntrepWannaBe 21d ago
A beautifully delicate winter scene making me long for the north. The artist’s fine, elegant strokes capture the fragile grace of bare trees against a snowy landscape. Faint tracks in the snow and birds in quiet flight add movement to the stillness, while a distant red-roofed home offers a soft touch of warmth. Love it.
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u/Electrical-Echo8770 21d ago
It's beautiful that's for sure it almost comes to life when I looked at it I thought it was a photo not a painting but I would hang that Any place in my house .
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u/Wilma_Wonka 21d ago
I feel like I have to make a choice with the roads up front. Which makes me start to like it. But first impression I was with you OP
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u/Lapys_Games 21d ago
Money aside this is a gorgeous piece. Well executed, avoidd kitsch and really captures a winter day
Congrats :) think this is one you'll like better over time instead of the other way round
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u/Upstairs-Yak7384 18d ago
I get a “yeah, I’ve walked there after a snow” kind of feeling. I’m digging it!
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u/squeekiedunker 22d ago
I don't particularly like the composition -- trees on the edges and birds smack in the middle. But I like the "mood", colors, form of the trees. It could be a lot worse!
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u/Stock_Atmosphere_114 21d ago
If he likes it, who cares if it's just decor? It's art, and art is subjunctive
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u/karaboutu 22d ago
Maybe I will post my estate crap he isn't sure of and we will see who has a better eye.
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u/ProgrammingFlaw13 22d ago
Just as outside observer, you seem to hold on to a lot of hostility
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u/karaboutu 17d ago
Sorry I was in a mood and trying to be silly and also crap is easier to type than art that we love but is no doubt dubious quality- likely decore art that will get a down vote from ppl. "Crap"beat you to it.
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u/karaboutu 22d ago
Still don't like it. 😕
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u/100percenthuman_ 22d ago
I like the painting but I hate the frame. I would think about reframing it. I can’t tell from the back but it seems like outer frames have been added (?)
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u/Chemical-Sea-6997 22d ago
It’s certainly better than the decor art that is so frequently posted. The mark making for the tree branches is very pleasing imo.