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Belgian artist Cornelis van Leemputten is a good example of  self-taught artists. Though, he attended an art academy in his later years, after setting a good reputation as a painter, he mainly learned, produced and was known as an excellent self-taught artist. That shows his deep desire for the art. Artist’s main theme through-out his career was mainly focused on landscapes which included sheep and such shepherds. That’s a very rare and unique subject to select as the only main theme, but he mastered the theme and not to mention, that it is more difficult to portray an active sheep than a person who will sit as he is asked for. This painting shows a boy in blue shirt and a round hat posing with […]

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When a scene comprises all the pure natural elements, one doesn’t see anything else but the sheer, mesmerizing beauty in it. It’s like Mother Nature has cultivated its skills after years of evolution so well that the unbiased-by-human areas are still the most innocent, most secured and balanced lands, which should be left untouched. African jungles are one of those areas. Though, the jungle safari tours have affected the wild-life to a certain point, but still there are many zones left without any human connection. The represented painting could be a incarnation from one of those ‘safe-zones’ untouched and pure. The represented oil on canvas emphasizes the elements of calamity and sanity in every square inch from its original size of around 5 by 3 […]

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