Thoughts on painting please

Hi all,I was thinking of buying this. I thought it was well painted and I really like the clouds with the sunshine (and the water) However is this a factory or decorative painting? The frame makes me think maybe 70’s or so? The artist name:
C.H. Lin? (makes one wonder) So is this just a attractive decorative painting or something more? The frame size about 75cm x 115cm.
Thank you for any comments and keep well

 

I think it's decorative, like this one. Vietnam era and perhaps a souvenir.

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/paintin...-century-landscape-stone-bridge/id-a_7739622/

Debora

 

Ditto re Debora. We knew a few folks who worked for the US government in the 60's and the Vietnamese were doing Western-style landscapes,beautiful women & genre scenes for the European market.This prob began much earlier- the French occupied the country from the 1880's to the 1950's and Hanoi was known as the 'Paris of the Orient'.

 

I like it. Don't know much about art work, but I love the sun shining thru the clouds.

 

Agreed that it is a nice souvenir painting.

 

I agree - souvenir or decorator piece. It's pretty, so the painter(s) understood the brief. Nice thing.

 

They are skilled and quick. I picked up a Cezanne copy a few years ago cheap-i was amazed by the talent of the copyist. Not sure if this is Vietnamese,Chinese or somewhere else.
In person the colors and brush work sing.

 

Back in the day, museums allowed copyists to work directly in front of the work they were copying.

Debora

 

They still do but they sometimes require you make your piece to different dimensions. The Louvre issues permits and you can see really great photos of artists working in that article. My local museum has no restrictions. I've drawn at lots of major museums, though never painted. Some will not allow larger bags so you have to carry your kit in the open or half in a small bag. It's part of the original purpose of museums as education.

 

Nice copy! They got the movement down.

 

Thanks Mirana-twenty bucks ! Agree on the 'movement',the diagonal hatching in those pigment strokes in the trees, lot of life in the execution. It's on the wall and we're 10-20 million up !

 

that confident unfinished solitary branch (and the area in the far distance) is a nice part/area of it

 

I agree,that's a great passage Charlie.I also like the last (5th) pic down-great colors.
Here's Cezanne's original view of L'Estaque-you can the the artist (copyist) played with it a bit.
PS-This orig Cezanne I tweaked- saturated & sharpened (10-20%). My pic of the copy is too dark and a bit out of focus.

 

Lots of 19th century copies were done as tourist souvenirs. You could bring home a copy generally smaller, of a piece of Great Art. They were marked as such as often as not. I'm not surprised that some museums still allow people in to paint.

 

its not bad is it bud (yours)
(his) has blown my socks of though, the cigarette nearly fell out of my mouth, its those confident defined strokes

 

don't know if its me............or is there something odd about how the sea appears (in his) ?

 

looks more like a fish tank than a distant ocean

 

Funny!

 

Noted. Thanks for the confirmation. I appreciate it