A Giraffe, 2012, oil on canvas, 24"x18"
Styles: Akron Public Library - Northwest
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- Daniel Maidman is primarily self-taught. He has attended life drawing workshops 2-3 times a week since 1998. He also spent two years working on an anatomical atlas based on human cadaver dissections. Illustrations from his atlas are in use in the United States Army’s forensic field manual. His current paintings range from the figure and portraiture to still lives, machines, and cityscapes. * His work has been shown in juried shows at galleries in New York, California, Ohio, Missouri, and Oregon, and will soon be shown at Gallery Mess, the restaurant of the Saatchi Gallery in London. He has been a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s figurative painting competition (2009, 2010), and his paintings and writing on art have been published by ARTnews, American Art Collector, International Artist, Poets/Artists, SUNY-Potsdam, and American Artist magazine’s blog. His writing on Da Vinci will be taught at DePaul University later this year. * His work is included in numerous private collections, among them those of Chicago collector Howard Tullman, novelist China Miéville, and author Kathleen Rooney. * More of his paintings and drawings are online at www.danielmaidman.com.
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That is a noble giraffe. It almost looks like a brontosaurus.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fred! It's actually a rare "thunder giraffe" living at the Bronx zoo.
ReplyDeleteWell, not really. I mean, it's at the Bronx zoo, but it's just a run-of-the-mill giraffe giraffe. The sky is from the sky painted on the wall of the giraffe house, but being me, I seem to have introduced an element of the histrionic not present in the original.
Thank you for the gift of this post.
ReplyDeleteWell heck! Thank you, Edinburgh!
ReplyDelete"but being me, I seem to have introduced an element of the histrionic not present in the original."
ReplyDeleteThe new blogspot grey-on-cream comment text is hard for me to see, and I first read, "historic." Which is also kind of true, the mountains and sky actually do have kind of a pre-historic (which is still historic) feel to them that contributes to the noble brontosaurus thing.
Regardless, it's a wonderful giraffe, past or present. Great composition. And if you look close, you can see a face in the spots!
Ed, I'm not so thrilled you've adopted Mike's face joke. But I'm glad you like the painting. And I have actually gone through the settings, trying to restore the older text colors! I can't figure out how to do it, it's driving me *nuts.*
ReplyDeleteDude, I just looked it up on a fairly advanced blog-design website and, following the complicated instructions, went down into the HTML guts of the blog and fixed it. Look at me! I rule!
ReplyDeleteYES! I can read it much better now, thank you and that is an impressive bit of techno work, I'm glad you could fix it!
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