Orange Hat- Painting Of Man Enjoying Painting By Alex Katz

Orange Hat
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Alex Katz

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
19 2/3" x 8 1/2" or 50 x 21,5 cm
2025

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Morning Sun- Painting Of Man Enjoying Painting By Edward Hopper

Morning Sun
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Edward Hopper

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±35 1/2" x 27 2/3" or 90 x 70 cm
2025

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In Morning Sun, the woman - modeled after Hopper's wife, Jo - faces the sun impassively and she seems to be lost in thought. The bare wall and the elevation of the room above the street also suggest the bleakness and solitude of impersonal urban life. Then again she could just quietly enjoy the morning sun.

The figure looking at her comes prepared for a different type of weather as he is holding a folding umbrella.

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A Bar At The Folies-Bergère- Painting Of Man Enjoying Painting By Edouard Manet

A Bar At The Folies-Bergère
painting of a man enjoying a painting by Edouard Manet

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±47 1/4" x 29" or 120 x 74 cm
2025

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The man on my painting is enjoying A Bar At The Folies-Bergère by Edouard Manet. This celebrated work is Manet’s last major painting, completed a year before he died and could have been intended as a farewell painting. It represents the bustling interior of one of the most prominent music halls and cabarets of Paris, the Folies-Bergère frequented by Manet.

The painting would have been a startling piece for viewers back in the day in many ways. Not least because it seems to follow the traditional format of portraiture but does not name its subject. Indeed, the barmaid appears as just another item in the enticing array on offer in the foreground: wine, champagne, peppermint liqueur and British Bass beer, with its iconic red triangle logo.

The background shows a fashionable crowd mingling on the balcony, entertained by musical and circus acts below. In the top left, a trapeze artist in green boots adds to the excitement. This animated scene is in fact a reflection in the large gold-framed mirror, which projects it into the viewer’s own space.

Ignoring normal perspective, Manet has shifted the barmaid’s reflection to the right. The bottles on the left are similarly misaligned in the mirror. This play of reflections emphasizes the disorientating atmosphere of the bustling Folies-Bergère. In A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Manet created a complex, absorbing composition and one of the iconic paintings of modern life.

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Woman Sleeping- Painting Of Woman Enjoying Painting By Picasso

Jackie
painting of a woman enjoying a portrait of Jackie Kennedy

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±8 3/4" x 8 1/3" or 34,8 x 21,4 cm
2025

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Here's the second painting I mentioned earlier. The frame came for the bigger piece. Hope to show you that one soon!

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Jackie- Painting Of Woman Enjoying Portrait Of Jackie Kennedy By Andy Warhol

Jackie
painting of a woman enjoying a portrait of Jackie Kennedy

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±12" x 8" or 30 x 20 cm
2025

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Finished another larger piece of a world famous painting. Waiting for the frame to arrive. Also finished two smaller pieces of which Jackie is first.

It shows Jackie Kennedy right before and right after the assassination of president John F. Kennedy.

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Nachtwacht- Painting Of Man Enjoying Rembrandt's Night Watch

Nachtwacht
painting of a man enjoying Rembrandt's Night Watch

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±35 1/2" x 35 1/2" or 90 x 90 cm
2025

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The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt and formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. The painting’s simpler, widely known title was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow varnish, the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.

Commissioned in 1640 and painted in 1642, at the height of Rembrandt’s career, this colossal painting is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company, the civic guard, charged with preventing attacks on Amsterdam.

Such portraits traditionally depicted their members in neat rows or at a banquet. Rembrandt’s version, however, makes the prosaic subject into a dynamic work of art; with its masterful chiaroscuro and dramatic action, the conventions of traditional portraiture are overturned.

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Las Vegas Casino- Painting Of Woman Hitting The Slot Machines In Las Vegas

Las Vegas Casino
painting of a woman hitting the slot machines in Las Vegas

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±22 1/2" x 19 1/2" or 57 x 49,3 cm
2025

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I have visited Las Vegas a few times and I love painting people hitting the slot machines. The lights, signs and tons of small details are a challenge to paint and something that totally absorbs me.

While painting I realized that's it's not just the bright colors and details that attracts me. I like how people are wrestling with the machines, like a man versus machine kinda thing. But as we all know the casino always wins.

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Two Frida's- Painting Of Woman Enjoying Double Self Portrait By Frida Kahlo

Two Frida's
painting of a woman enjoying a double self portrait by Frida Kahlo

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±20" x 16" or 50 x 40 cm
2025

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I always shied away somewhat from taking on a Frida Kahlo, but when a great collector from Miami asked me to do this commission I'm glad I did. Pretty satisfied with the results and the collector loves it!

If you'd like for me to do a commissioned piece, I'd be happy to hear from you!

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Alpha Phi- Painting Of Woman Enjoying Painting By Morris Louis

Alpha Phi
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Morris Louis

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±15" x 8 1/2" or 38 x 21,4 cm
2025

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The painting my figure is enjoying is a prime example by Morris Louis' Color Field painting.

This is a style of abstract painting characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. In color field painting color is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself.

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Bleu- Painting Of Woman Enjoying Painting By Joan Miró

Bleu
painting of a woman enjoying a painting by Joan Miró

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±12" x 8" or 30 x 20 cm
2025

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Many of Catalan Spanish artist Joan Miró works show the same spacious, blue field. Miró held a special significance with this colour.

To him this blue was a symbol of a world of cosmic dreams, an unconscious state where his mind flowed clearly and without any sort of order.

This blue was the colour of a surreal, ethereal night. A night that embodied the only place where dreams could exist in their rawest state, untouched and uncensored by conscious, rational thought.

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