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First Name John
Last Name Thorpe
Born 1952-01-13
Country South Africa
Biography 
Hi
My name is Derek Gordon. I represent the artist W.John Thorpe.
As a personal friend of mine for many years While helping him clean out his attic early last year I came across 3 scraperboard images. When I enquired of John who had produced them he proudly admitted that he had done them. Not believeing anyone with that type of talent could have kept that from me for all these years, I scoffed and challenged him to produce a new one. The result is the image of Nelson Mandela (Madiba) shown here. It is in my opinion the best image of the great man that I have seen in any medium. Still not believing him and thinking that he had a one armed mute chained up in his cellar I gave him a photograph of a lion and asked him to start it in my presence. After some twenty minutes of etching I was forced to appologise and became an instant fan. I just cannot understand how anyone with his talent has not produced any new work for 21 years. Needless to say I am keeping him very busy building up his profile and portfolio. John is British born but has lived in Cape Town South Africa for the past 22 years. Watch this space for his new works.
 Style Impressionism
An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time. The chosen colors represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and recombined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance (an optical mixture). The term was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet called Impression - Sunrise.
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A scratchboard image of Barack Obama printed on canvass
by Thorpe
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A scratchboard portrait of the African Lion printed on canva
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A scratchboard portrait of Nelson Mandela printed on canvass
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 Style Contemporary
1950-Now
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 Style Figurative Art
Art in which recognizable figures or objects are portrayed.
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 Style Expressionism
An art movement of the early 20th century in which traditional adherence to realism and pr...
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 Style Modern
1900-1949 van Gogh, Monet
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 Style Realism
A style of painting which depicts subject matter (form, color, space) as it appears in act...
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 Style Classicism
Referring to the principles of Greek and Roman art of antiquity with the emphasis on harmo...
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