Thomas Arvid - Preeminent Painter of Wine

Thomas Arvid - Preeminent Painter of Wine

What absolutely boring copies from photographs! Why does he and you bother calling him a 'painter'? Why not just sell the photos as product photography, which is exactly what his pieces are?

Does he use paint and brushes to make his images? That makes him, by definition, a painter, regardless of your feelings about photorealism or insipid subject matter.

There are some good web sites about the differences between painting and photography.

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I don't know how you can call that sort of thing 'boring', unless you look at it all the time. It's bleeding-edge post-postmodernism; there's no there there, not even irony. It doesn't even obtrude excessive formal values upon the viewer. Why, it makes Andy Warhol look like a gasping, sodden Romantic.

I see a future for this sort of thing, by the way. While people are always having their expensive houses, cars and dogs painted, they often forget their all-too-ephemeral expensive comestibles. Why not paint their wines, their cigars, their araugula, so they can eat their cake and have it too?

Uh...is this a trick question?

That makes him, by

Oh, now I get it, thanks.

regardless of your feelings about photorealism

You mean I'm wrong again (sniff)?

And I'll be scrambling to find them real soon.