/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3785124
lol the face

>>3785124
lol it looks like she's laughing at your microdick lol

>>3785130
>>3785137
I sent an email to the guy who sold it to me because he didn't know this was a vintage painting, nor did he know the original painting: the source. Read his email back to me:

Hello,
Wow, I had no idea this painting was a copy of an earlier work. So sorry to disappoint you! I checked the tracking, & it looks like it should be delivered today. Have a look at it & let me know what you decide. Even if it's a reproduction, it's still very nicely done & quite old. Maybe once you see it, you will decide you still like it. Whoever the artist was, he must have greatly admired the Ingres painting, to attempt such an accurate copy. I just searched this image on ebay, & canvas prints of "La Source" sell for over $200. So in a sense, this is still a pretty good deal, considering this one is hand-painted & a legitimate antique. Whoever painted it was definitely a competent artist in their own right. Once you receive & inspect the painting, please let me know what you would like to do. I hope you don't think I was intentionally trying to deceive. I majored in art history in college but wasn't familiar with this painting, though I have heard of Ingres. Sorry for my lack of knowledge about this particular work.

>>3785141
fucking hell kek I mean for the age it looks like someone at least tried but eghhhh that guy is a dumb ass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_student_scam

I actually stumbled upon this wiki article the other day

>>3785185
Oh it's a mad house for art collectors. A true fucking mad house.
I've collected bullion. Easy? Sure, have money!
I've collected guns. Easy? Sure, have money!
I've collected gems. Easy? Eghh it's a little challenging to make sure that the stones aren't heated or glass filled, but it's possible if you look at each specimen with a telescope, so yes, it's ok.

But art collecting...art collecting you must know your pieces. You must know your provinence. You must know what detail to look for. You must be able to look at something and its price and know "is this even possible logically?" Hell, there is an art gallery that claims to have provinence on every piece they sell. Ranging from $1000 to $100,000 and even higher. However, do they truly know what they have is even real? Do you trust them to know what is real? Do you trust them to care enough about your best interest and not sell you a fake painting worth thousands?

Art buying/collecting is the most painful buying there is. It's almost gambling if you are paying for luxury art because you have to know your shit to even buy in the first place, lest you collect all this fake bullshit and you are left with a dwindling wallet.

This is why I am not ashamed to buy student art. If I know the student in real life, and they sell art, AND they make beautiful things. Guess what? I'm going to take a picture of them with the art piece that they personally sell me, and I am going to have them make me a certification. That way I am at peace knowing what I have may not be of wealth, but is at least unique.

>>3785204
>telescope
meant microscope haha I apologize.

>>3785185

>>3785141
I didn't get to read the old thread but whenever a seller is playing dumb, just walk away. 99 times of 100, what they're selling isn't genuine.

>>3785228
I learned very well of this, I personally know that this piece isn't genuine in any way shape in form, but it's at least a -ok- version of the real thing.

Would you all just advice from now on to buy from my local gallery that sells shit for thousands but at least tells me the provinence? He has a family owned gallery that is 200 years old and claims everything he sells is incredibly genuine and original.

>>3785204
Literally the perfect body. How can real girls compete

>>3785395
this is the first time ive been attracted to non hentai art of a woman, those legs are perfect

>>3785398
>>3785395
Jules Joseph Lefebvre is the artist

>>3785234
PROVENANCE.

If you're going to play the art collector game and expect to be taken even slightly seriously, learn how to spell the actual word.

>>3785141
>accurate copy
These words you use, i do not think they mean what you think they do.

>>3785130
>>3785204
Why do they have no papaya

>>3785124
I'm just laughing my ass off here. It's got bare wood showing around the edges? It's not even a GOOD rip off. It's probably a canvas inkjet glued to a piece of wood, in a cheap frame.

I have never in my life seen a real oil painting with bare wood around the edges of the gesso - and perfect lines for the gesso. It makes no sense. Not even a student would do this. This HAS to be a canvas print glued to a board.

Plus, whoever framed this, just cut the board to fit a random frame. A real painting would be on a standard sized board, or the frame would be made to fit the painting properly.

Send this piece of trash back.

>>3785234
Dude. it's got bare wood showing around the edges of the print. It's framed incorrectly, even for a student piece or whatever the hell it is.

If you think that "looks okay", then enjoy your thrift shop treasures, but stop posting about it. It's pointless, and doesn't belong here.

>>3785436
>>3785433
it's painted ON wood

>>3785433
>>3785436

If you wanted a shitty copy you could've just made it yourself

>>3785444
what the fuck?

>>3785444
so some motherfucker got a piece of wood, painted that shit on there, then grabbed a frame that works for that hunk of shit wood....what the fuck? I've never seen anything this remotely weird in my life.

>>3785442
I bet it's not. Show us the actual paint strokes.

Even if it is, it's still trash. Bare wood around gesso? That thing is going to rot, and peel off. Bare exposed wood on painting is hilariously bad.

Better idea.

Go to Allposters.com.

Type in "Ingres" and "The Source".

Choose "24x32"

Choose "gold frame".

$211.82, shipped to your door, framed properly, and doesn't look like the absolute joke that hunk of crap you paid for.

Done.

Or, go to niceartgallery.com

Choose "Ingres" and "Source".

With a properly sized and fitted frame, AND handpainted, $376.

Your hunk of shit isn't even worth burning for the BTUs.

>>3785455
Worse, cut a shitty student paint off the stretcher or cardboard backer it was painted on, and glued it to a board that fit a frame that was laying around.

That wood around the edges is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

Nobody, not even the most clueless student would tape off an area for gesso for a painting like that. And a decent art seller would have cut the exposed board off and found a frame that actually fit the painting.

Seriously, if this is a bait thread - well fucking done, for the humor value.

>>3785456

>>3785444
Please show us the back. That wood looks like teak. AKA the 1960's.

>>3785459
I can't fucking breath.

I can't

>>3785460
Keep posting pictures of your thrift store treasure, it just makes it funnier.

>>3785461
1/3

>>3785464
2/3

>>3785464
Looks like ply.
How much have you shelled out?
Did you buy this on eBay? if so, you can try & return it....

>>3785464
is that fucking mold at the bottom? what is that dark spot?

>>3785467
And that is mould along the bottom, sat in a damp cellar for 35 years.
Poor OP.

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>>3785472
>>3785466
>>3785464
MY SWEET FUCK. THAT IS BLACK MOLD. SEND THIS FUCKING DEMONIC PIECE OF SHIT BACK TO WHEREVER THE FUCK YOU BOUGHT THIS FROM BEFORE YOU DIE

>>3785469
Yep. That's mold.

These pictures make it even more hilarious. The frame is rotted, and needs to be replaced - and doesn't fit the painting/print, whatever it is. The board doesn't even fit in the frame properly. Cheap hanging hardware, improperly done. Rotted plywood, with a nice big split up the middle.

No matter who put this together, it's hilariously bad. It has no value, even as student art. Someone took a frame, a hunk of plywood, and a print or student painting, threw them together poorly, with cheap finishing nails instead of properly fitting frame and glazing points or clamps, and is selling it to the biggest chump on ebay.

A professional art framer would literally laugh their ass off at this. An appraiser would tell you to get the fuck out of their office and stop wasting their time.

This isn't even a thrift store treasure, because it doesn't even look good. It's ugly. And literally rotting. It's trash from a garage, basement or attic thrown together and put up for sale on eBay.

And, the funniest part of it all, is the OP paid for it, and is trying to defend it.

Again, if this is a bait thread, well done.

>>3785472
>>3785466
>>3785464
my fucking grandma had mold rotting. That thing is infest to fuck with spores

I...what the fuck

OP here, I'm literally hauling my ass to walmart to buying bubble wrap and sending this piece of gross ass shit back

>>3785488
Why the everloving fuck would you try to protect it?

Send it back with whatever they sent it in - and get a refund for the shipping.

>>3785493
I thought it was a decent 1950's copy of a painting

I gotta go I'll message back when im gone. The smell from this thing is gross and I need to clorox my house.

Fuck I'm retarded. I'm only buying from clean galleries with history on the art from now on fuck this shit what the hell have I done

>>3785472
sell that thing back and clean your fucking hands

Anons, I’m sorry I’m such a fucking idiot. I have it all boxed back up. I’m new to this. All of this. I just wanted some art but I learned quickly what a fuck up that was
thanks

>>3785521
Just come here and ask us before buying something. You can see we don't beat about the bush. We will give it to you straight. There are good buys on ebay, etc, but chose your seller's carefully :D

>>3785525
thanks. I think I’m going to save up a few grand to actually buy paintings though. It’s true that you get what you pay for..I want something nice that everyone can agree on is nice, not a rotting hunk of moldy wood

I’m just surprised the seller had the audacity to sell stuff with mold on it...he even is 100% approved on ebay...

Anyhoo. Im returning this and buying a decent beautiful thing later with actual knowledge that it’s real and with a story behind it

>>3785534
I think that the official painting of “The Source” is ruined for you forever

Anons why is my throat so sore? ;-;

This is what OP gets for spamming his bootleg shopping threads asking for free buying advice.
This isn’t a goddamn collector’s board. It’s for critiqueing art, not fucking eBay forensics

>>3785563
OP remember to post a picture of your dead body

>>3785635
>eBay forensics

fucking hell, you have to admit though, even though the stupid fuck finally got what he deserved, it was kinda funny

>/ic/ thread about OP getting hoodwinked
>it's actually about OP receiving an uncontained biological weapon instead
Haven't seen an /ic/ thread this amusing in a while.

>>3785782
he honestly is quite amusing despite him flooding the board with ebay shit and found a fucking super dangerous black mold that kills people if subjected to long enough

>>3785464
I don’t know what is more ridiculous and fucked. The fact that this thing has black mold and it was sold, the fact that the seller sold it like this, the fact that someone bought this, or the horrible fucking nail job that was done on this horrible fucking piece of crap

>>3785464
is this thing haunted?

>>3785635
Up yours. I've enjoyed all of OP's threads.

>>3785534
Don't forget to open 'not as described' case for this & attach pics of mold for ebay to see. You'll get your bucks back, AND cheer up a whole office.

>>3785879
This.

>>3785879
Oh I did. Trust me I even messaged him and said I’m sending it back and he apologized for the gross shit he sent me

>>3785635

Thank god someone else fucking agrees, op has been posting like 10 fucking threads a day with the same file names and shitty god damn shitty paintings.

Op tries to pass himself off as having taste or being intelligent when he's wasting his money on god awful paintings.

>>3786593
unironically I liked the painting of the boy with flowers but everything else was shit

I can smell the chinese from here

>>3785400

>>3786872
SEXY