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25.5.10

The Product- People On Escalator Leaving Ikea

The Product
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G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
23.6" x 17.7" or 60 x 45 cm
2010

During my lunchbreak today I noticed Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 lying around on my table. To be honest, it's the only book I ever read by him and I don't know much about the man. So during my lunchbreak I checked youtube if there was any info about the author who's book I enjoyed so tremendously. I happened to stumble upon a couple of very interesting and inspirational clips.

In one of them he said: 'If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or, "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.'

After hearing him say that I looked at my painting I just finished and sort of felt sorry for the figures on my painting. Yes, they seem to be happy with all the new products they just bought, but they weren't jumping off any cliff, they're taking the escalator for God's sake. Sure hope that they have other inspirational things to do as well, because leaving the Ikea at the back of the store on a escalator sure isn't one of them, is it?

kind regards, Gerard

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18.5.10

The Outfit- Painting Of 2 Women In Clothing Store

The Outfit

G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
20.4" x 17.4" or 51,8 x 44 cm
2010
SOLD

As you probably noticed already I'm currently focusing more on larger and medium sized paintings. Not that I'm forgetting about my dailies, but it's just that I feel like making some larger ones for a change. I like the amount of detail I can put into those paintings as todays painting clearly shows.

The painting shows a clothing store where 2 ladies are looking to buy some new killer outfit. I had great fun painting all those different shades of reds and yellows. The colors also give the painting such a warm feeling.

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3.5.10

Art Business- Telephone Bids Auction Painting Rothko Christie's

Art Business

G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
35.6" x 27.6" or 90,3 x 70 cm
2010
SOLD

It took me some weeks to complete, but here it is: my painting of workers taking telephone bids at an art auction at Christie's. You might recognize some figures from previous daily paintings. The painting being auctioned is of course by Rothko. It actually is an image of it projected against the wall. I like how it towers above the workers of Christie's. To me it symbolizes that art is above money. The art business is about art first!

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