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Re:Say Good-Bye to Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Disappearing ... by joshvm on Monday May 11, 2015 @07:57PM (#9528652)
To offer a different example, it's fairly rare to see real dinosaur bones on display - at least mounted into a dinosaur shape. There are lots of problems with mounting bones and naturally a lot of care and expense has to go into it. Many museums simply exhibit painted casts and 90% of people won't notice the difference unless they're told.
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Re:Say Good-Bye to Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Disappearing ... by DannoHung on Monday May 11, 2015 @08:17PM (#9528733)
Right, but for bones, the structure of the skeleton in place is what's interesting, not so much the fact that it's original.

For Van Gogh's work, the image itself is not really what's amazing about it. They are quite nice if that's the style you like, but if you've ever seen one of his originals up close, you can tell that it's actually more of a color bas relief made with oil paint. I find them to be exquisite in person.

If someone made Van Gogh reproductions that actually were more or less accurate in terms of the sculpturey nature of the works, I would spend at least a thousand dollars to have one of my favorites.

I don't know too many other artists that have paintings that are like Van Gogh's though, where it's not just the image, but the material that's the soul of the work.

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Re:Say Good-Bye to Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Disappearing ... by dagw on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @03:56AM (#9530128)
If someone made Van Gogh reproductions that actually were more or less accurate in terms of the sculpturey nature of the works, I would spend at least a thousand dollars to have one of my favorites.

There are lots of companies and artists that will happily do that for you. www.vangoghstudio.com for example seem to do it on fairly large scale.

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Re:Say Good-Bye to Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Disappearing ... by aikah on Monday May 11, 2015 @09:01PM (#9528903)
> but if you've ever seen one of his originals up close, you can tell that it's actually more of a color bas relief made with oil paint. I find them to be exquisite in person.

+10 , saw a Van Gogh at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, wasn't expecting that much physical depth in the painting itself.

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