# Identify a Painter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-painter/437136 "2008-02-11T07:46:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-painter/437136/1 "2008-02-11T07:46:50Z")
There’s a small town near either San Diego or Monterey in California that has lots of artist galleries (I’m leaning towards San Diego), which I visited sometime in the early 90’s. There was one artist that I liked, who I am relatively certain had a Russian sounding name, whose art was similar in palette to that of Gil Bruvel (though slightly lighter), but his topics were more realistic and simple. For instance, just a picture of a violin or one of a ship. And he wouldn’t fill the entire canvas with color. Rather there would just be the item he was painting in the middle, and then a slight background which would fade to white. **I think.** I was still just a kid, and this was well over a decade ago so…add some amount of fudge factor to all of that. Sound like anything any of you know? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-painter/437136/2 "2008-02-11T07:51:10Z")
Jeff Koons. j/k, I got nothing (still annoyed that I got beat to the other thread) I do remember seeing a guy on a television documentary years & years ago who worked kind of like that, but not so much towards white, more towards objects disappearing. He did figurative pieces. I think Chuck Close was in the same documentary (one of those PBS bits on modern artists). That’s the nearest I can offer.