PROVOKING WOMEN AND MEN WITHOUT A FACE – Jack Vettriano, the miner who wanted to be a painter

JACK VETTRIANO – 1/3 – He is a Scottish painter of Italian origin, born in one day in November of 1951, a boy growing up in Scotland. His is a poor family, he has to work since a kid. At the age of 16 years, he is mining apprentice, but he started painting with a set of watercolors, a gift for his twenty-first birthday. His early paintings (signed Jack Hoggan), are mostly reproductions of Impressionist painters. Fourteen years later, he is able to display their artistic creativity, realizing his works professionally.

                                      JACK VETTRIANO 2/3 –His early paintings (signed Jack Hoggan), are mostly reproductions of Impressionist painters. Fourteen years later, he is able to display their artistic creativity, realizing his works professionally. Someone believes that success is rarely forgiven. This is perhaps the weight that a self-taught painter (snubbed by the most important galleries in the world), it is still expected to bring. Looking at what he has painted perhaps you – like us – you will have the perception to observe paintings made with creative talent.

JACK VETTRIANO 3/3 – Yes, he is one of the few artists who has the ability to draw out the soul of the beholder (even from your own), smells and sounds, personal feelings that enter into the painting, as if to complete the scene that colors have created within a framework. His paintings (all without exception), represent moments set in the canvas, as if they were photographs. If you look better, they give you the emotional dynamics of a creative man, a human being who had also worked in the mines. Scenes from mysterious charm, atmosphere from the fifties. Women provocative and attention to detail (faceless men). Sensual details (garters and hands, heels and painted lips), in cigarette smoke.

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