KAREN JACOBS  contemporary and abstract paintings
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                   Featured Paintings
                   
                  Twenty four paintings were used in the making of this movie.  
                  These are the ones that are prominent in the film.

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                  BlueGold
                   appears as a work in progress at the very beginning of the movie.  
                  The painting is created from start to finish as  the credits roll.

                  This painting is stolen and sets the plot moving.
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                  Gridlock is contemplated by Flo and Kate at Pomposello Gallery

                  Flo is a wealthy patron intent on uncovering the elusive artist and add to him to her collection. Kate is an art critic who is impressed with the work.
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                   Big Teal
                    Shari, the 'old' girlfriend,  knocks this large painting off the living room wall

                  This is possibly the point where she discovers that Gus and the famous artist Geoff Buonardi are the same and decides to blackmail Gus into marriage.
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                  Long Red Pass was featured on a magazine cover
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                  Flux and Calendar show up in the magazine review 
                  THE NEXT BIG THING
                  (netflix link)


                  "A deftly satisfying, comically coherent 
                  sendup of the world of art." 
                  -- Lawrence Van Gelder, NEW YORK TIMES

                  "Set amongst the spoiled and the starving in 
                  New York, The Next Big Thing pits artistic 
                  intelligence against a pleasantly simple love story" 
                  -- Rachel Gordon, FILMCRITIC.COM

                  Chris Eigeman stars in this engaging comedy as Gus, a young artist tired of starving and desperate to make a name for himself in Manhattan. 

                  His dream almost comes true one morning when he takes his portfolio to a gallery owner and, unknowingly, becomes the victim of pickpocket and all-around scallywag Deech (Harris).

                  Soon, Deech has broken into Gus's loft, stolen one of his paintings, and passed it off to his landlord to pay his back rent by claiming it to be the work of a passionate and troubled artist named Geoff Buonardi.

                  Soon, Geoff Buonardi is the toast of the art world, forcing Deech and Gus to work together to milk the scam, though Gus is desperate to reveal himself as the creator of the Buonardis.

                  A very funny and insightful send-up of the absurdly exclusive art world, THE NEXT BIG THING is a thoroughly enjoyable romantic farce.


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                  Flux and Calendar show up in the magazine review 
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                  A large copy of Lunar Trace  was made as a centerpiece  
                  at the Whitley Museum exhibition.

                  This image was used on the cast tee shirt.
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                  Red Rhythm hangs opposite the large Lunar Trace at the  
                  Whitley Museum and should appear behind some of the action.

                  Obi, Vertigo and Calendar are the featured trio at Cosmorama Gallery.

                  Vertigo again appears on Florence's wall.  

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                  and Big Square (One or Two?) is sold to a Japanese couple in a montage sequence
                   and the same painting or its twin appears on a magazine cover.
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                    React is the painting in progress in the final scene.


                   THE CAST AND THEIR ROLES