Pretty Pictures

Country Time

Recently I picked up an interesting piece of art that captured my fascination by way of it’s seemingly pure and uncomplicated imagery. While the vendor who acquired it didn’t have any information about the artist, he said it was purchased from an estate sale in San Bruno. The piece was signed in 1986 by an artist who goes by Leroy, however it isn’t clear whether that is his first or surname. With so little information to work from, it wasn’t a surprise that my online searches failed to uncover any clues to the origins of the artist.

Alas, I’ll just have to be satisfied staring into the placid, dream-like beauty of a simpler time. Oh well, back to work trying to analyze the motivating factors and buying patterns of online users and the best language to drive traffic and maximize conversions.

I love the simplicity of the single dots to represent the subject’s eyes and mouth.

UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that this piece is actually not in fact a beautiful and quaint scene of black rural life from the hand of a forgotten folk artist, but rather a rendition of a painting by the Impressionist master, Claude Monet titled “Les Coquelicots à Argenteuil.” Considering I don’t have an art history history background, I suppose this honest mistake might confirm that either I have a good eye or I don’t know squat about fine art (or both).

Thanks go out to ArtNut who called this one out! Well played, sir.