Man painting

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio's old master Baroque oil paintings.

1899: William Bruce Ellis Ranen, his sisters and their Mother. 1904. 1927. 1937. 1918: 'Pipe Practice.' 1926: 'The garden door.' 1933: 'Hall at Warbrook.' Ca. 1922: 'Hibicus Flower' and 'An Anglo-Indian Student.' Who was this young man? Like Sargent, Ranken was unmarried. Like Ranken, his friend and mentor, John Sargent,...

Lippert: The Young Apprentice. But if course it is the reflection of the older man which grabs the attention, not the apparent and superficial subject of the picture. re-blogged from blastedheath

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Works of Koen De Cock, Belgium website: http://www.koendecock.com/ http://www.roberto-polo-nude.com/ gallery: http://www.robertopologallery.com/ Koen De Cock - Born in Ghent ( Gent, Belgium ) on January 17th, 1978. From 1996 to 2000, he studied at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, from 2000 to 2001, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin, China, and from 2001 to 2002, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, Georgia. Koen currently lives in Ghent, Belgium

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The tight cropping and close focus on the face gives this portrait study of a young man a contemporary feeling. I like the intense immediacy of this close observation and the insouciance in his glance. I love painting portraits that give a vivid sense of an individual while conveying a mysterious, unknowable quality. This is a print of my original painting "Over the Shoulder Glance" which was created in 2019 in oil on canvas. The original painting has been sold. There is a slight luster to…