Oil painting made by artist Bob Ross (1942-1995) for his television program The Joy of Painting (1983-1994.) The painting was painted for use in one of Ross’ books. It is based on a work painted on air during season 30, episode 13. Now in the National Museum of American History (at the Smithsonian) in Washington, DC (USA).

More info:

https://www.si.edu/object/painting-bob-ross-blue-ridge-falls:nmah_1934718

Edit to add: Ross himself said his work was not “fine art” but I think it’s good art and he made a lof people happy. If you don’t think it belongs here, maybe you want to explain why.

Source (with lots of other nice tidbits about the man): https://youtu.be/9N2o_bz3aG0

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I am posting this after I read this on the Wikipedia page for Bill Alexander, Ross’ art teacher:

    As Ross’s popularity grew, his relationship with Alexander became increasingly strained. In a 1991 interview with The New York Times, Alexander said of Ross: “He betrayed me. I invented ‘wet on wet’. I trained him, and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.” Alexander refers here to Bob Ross using some of his individual patter like “happy little trees” and borrowing some of his unique peculiarities. Art historians have pointed out that the “wet-on-wet” (or alla prima) technique actually originated in Flanders during the 15th century, and was used by Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Caravaggio, Paul Cézanne, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet, among many others.

    As Cyndi Lauper sang, money changes everything. And that sucks.

    Be like Bob, not Bill.