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Old 10-16-2005, 11:41 AM   #1
Luca Vallifuoco Luca Vallifuoco is offline
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My grand fahter




Hello,
this is my last portrait. Is my grand father, a man that was in the second world war. He was captured from URSS but he escaped and return in Italy. This is an oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm.
Thanks for any comment.
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Old 10-16-2005, 11:56 AM   #2
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Hello Luca, Thank you for posting this sensitive painting of your grandfather. I think this unusual pose is interesting compositionally. I think you are having a hard time with the lighting on him, which looks like flash photography. (Any painter would have problems with this kind of photography.)
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