posted on November 7, 2001 01:42:58 PM new
I picked up this Oil Painting at a Value Village today for 5 bucks...The picture does not do it justice..
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Is this the Brooklyn Bridge. Is that the WTC in the background...or if this is NYC maybe it was doen before the WTC were built?
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posted on November 7, 2001 03:13:54 PM new
Could be NYC but I'd call the prominent buildings The Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. The bridge looks kinda like a cross between the Brooklyn and Washington Bridges..
posted on November 7, 2001 03:45:51 PM new
Hi, this is what it looks like to me, It looks like the queensborough bridge (59th street bridge) resembles the Chrysler and Empire state buildings and over to the right the Old Pan Am building. The George Washington is 2 levels, Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges have trains that go on them, (they use to when I lived there.) This seems to center on mid-town, I moved out of New york City Manhattan in 1978. Hope this helps.
Reenie
posted on November 7, 2001 05:26:50 PM new
This is most likely one of those mass produced paintings made for the "I need something for over the couch" crowd. They are produced by cheap labor (not artists) in third world countries where one worker lays down the base, another does the buildings, the third the bridge etc. on an assembly line.
There are probably dozens almost exactly like it sold at bargain outlets like the one you got it at. There are slight variations between them and one of each design is sent in a group to a seller so it looks original.
Whether it is New York is purposely vague, thought I think it may have been. However, note that the bridge is bigger than most of the buildings, and there are sorta sailboats on the river.
As you can tell, this is not art, it is commerce, and good luck selling it. It will undoubtedly bring bidders who will buy it because of the colors matching their rug, or the size is right to cover a hole in the wall.
Even the artists signature is probably "made up". Things like Rocky Norwell (Norman Rockwell) and Andy Whyeth (Andrew Wyeth).
The fact that there are people who buy paintings based on price and not quality says volumes about a consumer culture that has created our throwaway society.
posted on November 7, 2001 07:05:59 PM new
It looks like the Brooklyn Bridge, but if that's supposed to be the Empire State Building in the background, the perspective is all wrong. The ESB would be behind it and not that close. Maybe it's supposed to be some sort of NYC composite.
posted on November 10, 2001 08:46:03 AM new
Hi, before you do something like that did you look up the name of the person that signed it?, you never know with things like this, it may be worth a shot. I know t-shirts are selling much higher with N.Y. skylines.Some of them featuring the Empire State Building.
Reenie
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