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dsenechal
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posted 06-23-2018 10:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dsenechal   Click Here to Email dsenechal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What the heck is this?
Hand painted oil painting general soldiers Russia World War II. Neil Armstrong.

randy
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posted 06-23-2018 10:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
YIKES!!!!!!!!!

mode1charlie
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posted 06-23-2018 11:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mode1charlie   Click Here to Email mode1charlie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
LOL

oly
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posted 06-24-2018 12:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for oly   Click Here to Email oly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am not sure what is more disturbing, this painting, the thought of who would find this worth purchasing, or the full description tab that describes this painting as a male nude. It takes all sorts of folk to make a world.

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 06-24-2018 07:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wonder if this is like the Disney ride "The Haunted Mansion"? Where the initial look at the painting the people seem normal but as the paintings "stretch" you see some bizarre stuff?

Makes you wonder if this is the whole painting or if Neil is painted with red and white boxers standing on the shoulders of someone who is sitting on a powder keg on a tree branch...

PeterO
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posted 06-24-2018 12:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeterO   Click Here to Email PeterO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Now I'll never be able to ride Haunted Mansion again without chuckling

GT76
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posted 06-24-2018 03:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GT76   Click Here to Email GT76     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
During Apollo 11, the Russian newspaper Pravda referred to Neil as "the czar of the ship."

David C
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posted 06-24-2018 04:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for David C     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think what I find most bizarre about this is that it's actually quite well done. Weird.

AlanC
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posted 06-24-2018 05:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AlanC   Click Here to Email AlanC     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
He really rocks those epaulettes.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-24-2018 05:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is the work of Steve Payne, a UK digital artist, who goes by the screen name/brand "ReplaceFace" online.
George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. I'm using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.

Chuckster01
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posted 06-25-2018 05:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chuckster01   Click Here to Email Chuckster01     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So is this a hand painted in oil painting or a Photoshop digital image?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-25-2018 05:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The eBay listing has no connection to the artist and is a fraud. If you want a print or other product featuring Payne's art, follow the links from his website.

neo1022
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posted 06-25-2018 05:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for neo1022   Click Here to Email neo1022     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Robert, great detective work on this one!

Jonnyed
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posted 06-25-2018 08:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jonnyed   Click Here to Email Jonnyed     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ha, I was thinking that perhaps this is the "Soviets" way of coping with losing the race to the moon!

OK, you lose the race to the moon so take the American who was first to set foot and make him a Russian general.

A somewhat strange pathology, indeed. [Grin]

mjanovec
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posted 06-28-2018 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mjanovec   Click Here to Email mjanovec     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I never realized Neil had such a long neck.

Jonnyed
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posted 06-29-2018 07:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jonnyed   Click Here to Email Jonnyed     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"That's one small neck for a man, one giant neck for a Russian General"? [catcalls]

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