Very interesting contemporary American artist, Joshua LaRock. He has a wide range of works—there are many of them, and they’re technically and emotionally impressive, in my opinion. But I started the gallery with a selection of paintings where the sun is shining directly at the viewer. You actually don’t see this very often in oil paintings. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult to do technically, it’s just that no one really does it. Well, except for the Impressionists. In those very rare cases where it does appear, it usually depicts a sunset or sunrise, but never with people in the foreground.
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