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Twin Arts

15 Jul 2010 posted by AnnaRose2
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"Twin Arts" - 48" x 40" - oil on linen

This painting is particularly meaningful to me; it is both a double portrait of myself and my twin sister, and an allegory representing the intimate connection between art and music. To give you some background, Emily and I are mirror image twins - we are technically fraternal, but we grew up looking alike, sounding alike, and exercising similar talents and interests.  We were both artistic, and both musical, but Emily leaned more towards the musical side - playing piano and writing songs (she even wrote the music I walked down the aisle to at my wedding!) - and I chose a path that led me more towards art. In this portrait I hope to reveal something about us and our completely unique situation. Our special friendship is intensified by a spirit of competitiveness - yet we are extremely close and understand each other in ways no one else can.

There are detail pictures on my website: http://www.artworkbyannarose.com/portfolio.html

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L Skylar Brown wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 8:57 PM

Blonde Perfection. Immensely impressive!

kostadin wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 9:21 PM

WOW!Amazing work!

Susan Gutting wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 9:28 PM

The symbolism and technique are lovely.  The Young Explorer is also a very beautiful painting.  Congratulations.

Valia.US wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 9:38 PM

Dear Anna-Rose, everything is great in this painting - a masterpiece! You did exclusive portraits of your family members with a lot of love and talent, I like them all, but this one will belong to the timeless Art. I wish you an immense success with it!   

Sharon Repple wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 9:40 PM

Anna, I have always enjoyed your work and this is another vivid example of your profound ability.

Gene Cevasco wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 9:52 PM

This is masterful. I love it !

Sarah A Boardman wrote
on 15 Jul 2010 10:46 PM

Anna-Rose, I have been watching this develop on your website, and I am thrilled that it appeared here today. I think it is the most beautiful "conversation" between the arts, the differences, the similarities and particularly you both. What a beautiful, timeless piece of work. Congratulations!   Now, do you have to duplicate it for Emily???  Super, super work.

H.G.W. Schmidt wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 1:40 AM

Beautiful work!

patrickart wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 5:48 AM

the detail in the rug is outstanding. what a lovely work of art.

Sandrah Chalmers wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 6:16 AM

AnnaRose - This painting is just magnificent.....breathtaking ;) - I love the story behind it all.

dmac wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 6:55 AM

Beautiful work as always. Bravo!!

tonyhedrickart wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 7:08 AM

Well, you lucked out. You're not only talented, you're both gorgeous as well!

You are accomplished enough to know that gorgeous (in this case, stunning) people do not always, the best portraits make. You have done an exceptional job of making attractive people interesting.  The story is well concieved and I like the composition.

Technically, in my view, this is one of your best efforts... I mean, you are good no matter what you do but this and about three others on your site are quite outstanding.

tonyhedrickart wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 7:10 AM

One more thing... I suppose the carpet detail called for more ambition and "stick-with-it" that you thought you had???

Sandrah Chalmers wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 7:17 AM

The Carpet and paint palette details are just incredible. When I grow up, I just want to be just like you ;)

Margo5 wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 9:03 AM

Anna, this is so amazing in more ways than I can count. The concept, composition and execution of this are superb. The eye movement, graceful line, beautiful color, harmony of color and design, contrast of values, repetition of elements with slight variation, comparison of the arts - there are way too many amazing elements in this to even begin to mention them all. But then I think you have already figured out that I think your art exhibits a standard and quality that any realist artist would love to try to live up to.

Elias Lopez-Cruz wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 9:10 AM

Beautiful work!  The details are wonderful. I almost feel the carpet as if I were invited to put my feet on it. Congratulations!

danielevy wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 9:23 AM

WOWWWW! LADY DA VINCI!

AnnaRose2 wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 9:35 AM

Dear artist friends,

THANK YOU! Your comments mean so much! I hope that this painting serves as an inspiration to women artists especially, as I understand how hard it is to make it in the art world. Thank you, ALL!

riana wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 10:51 AM

Beautiful!

tonyhedrickart wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 12:57 PM

After reading your bio, I thought that we have a great deal in common. In actually fact, besides being a portrait artist and painter I am a missionary to Europe and Italy in particularly (my home is in Parma). I teach "Cultural Apologetics", do evangelism and train missionary / church leaders in a variety of locations.

I began in live in Oklahoma and Texas and was last in Minnesota for eleve years before moving to South Carolina.

kevin mizner wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 1:47 PM

To say "what a beautiful painting" only says the obvious!  Kinda reminds me of Eakins, and as good as any he did.

Kit Domino wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 2:50 PM

You are to be congratulated. Truely a masterpiece in every way.

sergio2010 wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 4:08 PM

Excellent work, always happy to see more and more artists working along classical lines it's really long overdue!

RAUL wrote
on 16 Jul 2010 10:17 PM

BEAUTIFUL WORK. LOVE ALL YOUR PORTRAITS

Sheila wrote
on 20 Jul 2010 9:41 AM

What a beautiful painting!

Kika1 wrote
on 21 Jul 2010 9:41 PM

Beautiful, impresive painting and your story!

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