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 Jack
Vettriano
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Jack Vettriano and Anthony Quinn
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It seems impossible to most
ordinary people that an artist whose prints outsell those
of most others, whose work appears on all kinds of articles
from postcards to mugs, posters to umbrellas, and whose
most famous painting sold for £744,800 at auction
should be shunned by art critics and public gallery curators.
This is the case for Jack
Vettriano, self-taught painter and former mining engineer
from the Scottish coalfields. His sometimes romantic, other
times sinister paintings, strike a chord with people of
all kinds from all around the world.
Perhaps it's because they
provide glimpses of a particular moment in somebody else's
life and we look at them and wonder what happened. Why are
two people in evening dress dancing on a beach while a butler
holds an umbrella? What is happening between the man and
woman in 'The Trap' - is there a clue in the title? Back
on the beach, in 'The Road to Nowhere', a man and woman
walk purposefully along a beach in street clothes, where
on earth can they be going?
There is a particular style
to the men and women in Vettriano's pictures: the men are
hard-edged and mysterious, the women seductive and enigmatic.
His people seem trapped by love and passion.
This new book, Jack Vettriano,
has a new biography written by Anthony Quinn and a wealth
of pictures. There are about thirty new images, exhibited
in June 2004, some recently rediscovered works, plus the
best of the paintings previously published in Lovers
and Other Strangers and Fallen
Angels, also by Pavilion. This gives an overview
of Vettriano's work from 1987 to 2004. Does the later work
show more passion and less romance than earlier paintings?
The reader can judge as the works are shown in chronological
order.
This is a lovely book for
anybody who enjoys Jack Vettriano's work. It is copiously
illustrated with one hundred colour pictures, as well as
information about the artist. Just like the prints and other
reproductions, this will probably outsell all other art
books this year.
Quick
Facts
Title: Jack
Vettriano
Author:
Anthony Quinn
Publisher: Pavilion
Books
ISBN:
1862056463
Binding: Hardback
Publication Date: October
2004
Price: £25
All information relates to
the UK edition.
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