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What is that last one? Mister Peanut? These paintings are wonderful, but baffling.
EDIT: Aha, surfers. Are they headed for a very secluded beach, or some kind of kudzu-surfing?
Your guess is as good as mine!
Reminds me of pictures by Michael Sowa.
Sowa’s aren’t as photorealistic and with a touch more weirdness to them, but the mood the paintings set are somewhat similar. YMMV, of course.
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From the description and thumbnails, I thought this was going to be photos by my favorite photographer, Gregory Crewdson. Pretty similar stuff!
Like the work! Reminds me of these …
Edward Hopper:
photorealist painter Richard Estes:
and my favorite po-mo photographer Thomas Struth:
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