Originally Posted by
Caesar
Great new portraits! I appreciate the tribute to Lucien Freud, an outstanding master and probably the best British painter lately. I think he was a most endowed painter and artist, by nature and cultural influences (which certainly included XX century Mitteleuropean painting school).
He has a pedigree name alright.
I'm sure he has his place in British painting, just like Hockney and Francis Bacon. I must confess that I don't know a lot about the British fine art scene. The internet is fixing that for everybody with the entirety of Art History at our fingertips.
But, like we joke about Sigmund Freud saying sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I'll take it further. Sometimes a painting is just a painting. . .
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So Mr Ploos. You found Levent Surbek's painting of the old fisherman. Well painted, you. He painted some really deep stuff as well as representing characters and locations in his world well.
You're doing everyone a compliment by learning from those at your elbow, in a manner of speaking. Soak it up, lad. Best way to do it. I would be surprised if Levent responds. He left in a rather final way during a time when the politics of the world were encroaching on ArtRage. Sad circumstances, really. He was a visible and appreciated member of the community here at the time.
But were I guessing at how he would react, based on having seen him around a few years here, he would be complimented, and no doubt he would be very encouraging. He'd probably try and paint you. Hahaha.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream
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real cool so who's the Prima Donna now 
