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Jack Vettriano's erotic, provocative and emotionally charged paintings have made him one of Britain's most successful contemporary artists. Collected by celebrities the world over, his exhibitions have regularly sold out and paintings now change hands for millions of pounds.This beautifully packaged gift-sized collection features Jack's men. Depicted against a backdrop of bars, clubs, racetracks and bedrooms, the men are often mysterious, hard-edged and sometimes vulnerable. It is a timeless world of drama, passion, secret liaisons and hedonism, where men chase dreams and play for high stakes.Jack Vettriano is Scotland's best-known and most successful contemporary artist. This book is the perfect gift for any father, brother or friend. It offers a new look at many of Jack's signature pictures.
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Jack Vettriano was born in Scotland in 1954. He left school at fifteen, became an apprentice mechanical engineer the following year and worked for five years in the Fife coalfields. He began painting in his spare time at the age of 21. In 1989 he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy annual exhibition: both pieces were accepted, hung and sold. This exposure led to his first solo exhibition in 1992 - since then he has had exhibitions in London, South Africa and Hong Kong. He has been featured in many radio programmes, including The Usual Suspects, Home Truths, Postscript and Midweek on Radio 4. His work was featured in BBC 2's coverage of the 1995 Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Nights.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My Dad is very keen on Jack Vettriano's work - especially the Bluebird paintings and The Billy Boys. This seems genuinely value for money as although there doesn't appear to be many new images in it, it has lots to interest my Dad!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A must have for all JV fans. I now have all of his books, thanks to Amazon!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
IN SOME CASES, SIZE DOES MATTER
3 Mar 2010
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I rated this book and its companion book, a three and one half (3.5), with +4.5 points for the artist and -1 for the publishers. The reproductions are of a decent quality, but the book is too small 7" x 8.5." Putting art reproductions in small books is a baaaaad mistake. I seldom buy books of art that are under 9" x 12" because one wants to view larger reproductions of good, colorful art.
A second mistake is having one image spread over two pages and many, even publicans of over-sized books, make the same silly error, splitting an image in the center, over two pages, and some of them are not split in half, but split 60%/40%. BOO! To such practices.
In the companion book, Jack Vettriano Women in Love, the size remains 7" x 8.5" and there are also split prints Yucko-Chucko! -As my 2.5 years old granddaughter would say.
I have several other books on Vettriano and they are of the over sized coffee table genre, but they are all salted away in my studio, nowhere near coffee, or coffee tables.
As to content, the books are crammed with Vettriano's sleazy film noir women and sleazier Film Noir men. His art is simple, colorful with deep, dark blacks, brilliant reds, yellows and flashing whites, most with a story behind them, sex, booze gambling and broads, in 1940's dress, style, and motif. One expects Bogy, or Mitchum, Mary Astor, or Jane Greer, to be hanging about on the next page. Each painting screams prostitution, or adultery, and the implications are often none-too-subtle. How great is Vettriano? He should be illustrating books, he should be shown everywhere. His art is blazing color, simplicity in action and it tickles the libido.
Aside from the pulp cover illustrations of the 1930's/1940's there never was a great surge of Film Noir art, but now in the simple, clean almost, flat sculpted images, we at last have a Film Noir painter. Albeit 50-60 years after the fact.
I love the art of Jack Vettriano, who in person looks every bit, the tough, the hard-bitten, cigarette hanging from the lip, Private Eye, or underworld character, as those he paints.
Viva-la Vettriano's palette, brilliantly dark, colorful, and simple. Buy these if you must but there are oodles of larger sized books of Vettriano's art, all the more pleasing and complementary to his style.
A second mistake is having one image spread over two pages and many, even publicans of over-sized books, make the same silly error, splitting an image in the center, over two pages, and some of them are not split in half, but split 60%/40%. BOO! To such practices.
In the companion book, Jack Vettriano Women in Love, the size remains 7" x 8.5" and there are also split prints Yucko-Chucko! -As my 2.5 years old granddaughter would say.
I have several other books on Vettriano and they are of the over sized coffee table genre, but they are all salted away in my studio, nowhere near coffee, or coffee tables.
As to content, the books are crammed with Vettriano's sleazy film noir women and sleazier Film Noir men. His art is simple, colorful with deep, dark blacks, brilliant reds, yellows and flashing whites, most with a story behind them, sex, booze gambling and broads, in 1940's dress, style, and motif. One expects Bogy, or Mitchum, Mary Astor, or Jane Greer, to be hanging about on the next page. Each painting screams prostitution, or adultery, and the implications are often none-too-subtle. How great is Vettriano? He should be illustrating books, he should be shown everywhere. His art is blazing color, simplicity in action and it tickles the libido.
Aside from the pulp cover illustrations of the 1930's/1940's there never was a great surge of Film Noir art, but now in the simple, clean almost, flat sculpted images, we at last have a Film Noir painter. Albeit 50-60 years after the fact.
I love the art of Jack Vettriano, who in person looks every bit, the tough, the hard-bitten, cigarette hanging from the lip, Private Eye, or underworld character, as those he paints.
Viva-la Vettriano's palette, brilliantly dark, colorful, and simple. Buy these if you must but there are oodles of larger sized books of Vettriano's art, all the more pleasing and complementary to his style.
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