tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52962529779748463642024-03-21T16:05:29.037-04:00The Louisa VilleaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296252977974846364.post-45463983792746407282014-03-29T02:24:00.002-04:002022-01-21T08:30:18.069-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">20"x24"</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">No shipping charges</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Each print is signed by the artist</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The original <em>Louisa Villea</em> is a 5'x6' oil on canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">by American artist Rich Thompson</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>About the painting...</em></strong></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Louisa Villea is fictional. She was created to represent the blending of race, creed, and color that makes Louisville, Kentucky, USA a world-class city. If you are using a tiltable LCD monitor you can actually change her ethnicity to see how she represents all of Louisville's citizenship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><em>Tilt monitor back and forth:</em></span></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">More information about the <em>Louisa Villea</em> can be found at:</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://www.louisavillea1.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">www.LouisaVillea1.blogspot.com</span></a></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://www.louisavillea2.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">www.LouisaVillea2.blogspot.com</span></a></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://www.louisavilleaforkids.blogspot.com/"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">www.LouisaVilleaForKids.blogspot.com</span></a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em> </em></strong><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">R</span></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">ichard Wayne Thompson was born in a two-room farmhouse near Upton, Kentucky. At the age of one his parents moved him to Louisville, where at the age of four he began exploring life through art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> Rich has a master's degree in fine arts and education from Murray State University. He has worked in all areas of commercial art and photography. He worked in the Jefferson County, Kentucky school system as instructor of art and photography at Valley High School.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Rich likes to combine Realism with Abstract Expressionism in his paintings. Just as real life is concrete and physical form blended with emotional and mental energy, he enjoys the process of seeing a work of art come alive with realistic, identifiable shapes combined with abstract, free-flowing shapes.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> He is best known for his 1980 painting entitled <em>JESUS </em>in which over 121,000 reproductions have been distributed worldwide. His most recent notable project was as art illustrator of the best-selling children's book "Mackenzie and the Baby Robin," written by his cousin, former Jefferson County Judge-Executive Rebecca Jackson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> Rich has spoken and made artistic presentations throughout the eastern United States and in Hawaii, where he lived for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> More information about the artist can be found at:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.richthompson-art.com/">www.RichThompsonArt.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Rich Thompson can be reached at: <a href="mailto:richthompson@bellsouth.net">richthompson@bellsouth.net</a> </span></div>
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