Sunday, January 6, 2013

Jon Smith


Jon Smith is an artist whose style is somewhere between realism and impressionism.  He often paints scenes from art museums, showing contemporary figures looking at the art.



17 comments:

brattcat said...

so interesting, art regarding art regarding art regarding art...

Lowell said...

That's rather like a photographer taking a picture of another photographer taking a picture.

Cezar and Léia said...

Nice art!
God bless you!
Cezar

PerthDailyPhoto said...

He's good Jack, his painting almost looks like a photograph.

Michelle said...

I agree with PerthDaily. His work does look like photography and I like his perspective.

SRQ said...

Clever niche.

VP said...

An excellent idea and a really nice painting...

Malyss said...

Oh, I love this kind of painting! What a marvellous artist he is!

Sylvia K said...

A terrific artist he is -- love the detail he captures! Great shots for the day, Jack. Have a great new week!

Sharon said...

He is very talented. I love that painting he's holding. So beautiful.

Halcyon said...

I like his idea - mixing art and reality. His works are nice. :)

Dianne said...

What a different kind of artist .... I like it a lot.

Janet said...

Well, that is really different!

RedPat said...

I like these, Jack! The concept seems a bit Escher-esque don't you think.

Mo said...

You seem to know lots of local artists Jack

Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger said...

What beautiful paintings! I sometimes enjoy photographing other people taking photographs.
Duncan In Kuantan

CaT said...

oooh, i know that sculpture he has in that painting! its in the MFA now and i always have to stop and look at her. its so beautiful. he did a far better job at painting it than i did photograping....