Jack Vettriano: Admired and Ignored

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Loved by the public – spurned by the critics  

Scotland’s most successful and controversial, contemporary artist, his paintings are a gateway to an alluring yet sinister world of idyllic beaches, nourish bars, intimate bedrooms, raceways and clubs. Scholars disdain his art, the national galleries ignore it. Yet, art patrons around the world aggressively collect his work.

This art slideshow with narrative will allow the viewer to gauge the strength of Jack Vettriano’s paintings. Is it repetitive, soulless and unchallenging; or alluring, restless, melancholic and romantic?

His paintings are the opening verse for a corpus of short stories, Jack Vettriano “The People’s Painter.”