Famous Painters Who Used Photos to Create Their Paintings (13 pics)

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27 Jul, 2010 |
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Did you know that many famous impressionist painters used photos to create their paintings? I didn't. They added or removed some details, colors. It helped them to save money that they would pay a model. Let's see some examples.

Edgar Degas

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Paul Gauguin

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Paul Cezanne

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Toulouse Lautrec

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Vincent Van Gogh

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№1 Author: peterflynn (27 Jul 2010 01:26) Total user comments: 958

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№2 Author: Jimmy Johnson (27 Jul 2010 03:28) Total user comments: 5518

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Considering a model isn't going to get paid posing in the same position for 100 hours, pretty much every artist uses photos.

The rip-offs are the ones that lift the image verbatim using projectors or photocopies... Like the guy previously posted that scrapes his images off leather hides

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№3 Author: salsapopo (27 Jul 2010 08:43) Total user comments: 12723