The Mall

oh nice redbubble…. very cute…....:)

totally surreal and spectacular Paul!

Waiting to shop at RB.. Great work Paul..
Chuck..

very nice. That man looks like he is on a mission

fantastic shot, well done paul

oh wow…is this a photograph or a painting..??? it’s very cool!

Hey Paul
Again a flawless execution. You are very talented and above all you have a great eye.
Very stylish this one.
Cheers Peter

Once again you make the mundane and unimaginable standard a work of art. A mall with its standard convrete and symmetrical construction should not loos so appealing. The way you breath new light and shininess into your images just pumps them full of life and interest.

The red shopping carts, ketb, bench, sphere and bin of course really make it and are typical Vanzellarised in composition and tones.

I’m not sure if you mean to Paul, but there is always something unerving about your urban landscapes. It’s as if that behind that wall there is a firing squad; that above above the top of the photo, the city is covered by a dome; or that the man is really an alien incognito.

Or is it simply an an exquisitely composed photograph of the modern urban lanscape ?
Mmmmm

I’m sure if I look up Urban Landscapes in the modern idiom, it will say See Paul Vanzella.
Your style is so distinctive, I knew it was one of yours just from the thumbnail, bravo …

How freakin cool is this!!!! wonderful work

It’s the REDBUBBLE MALL!!!!!

What?

Of course it is! If the red shopping carts didn’t give it away, that red bubble sure as hell would! It is where the all the Redbubblers come to shop for their paints, canvases, camera goodies, hot model clothes… catch up over coffee, swap gossip in the checkout lines and organise photo shoots in the dressing rooms.

Oh yeah…. sleep deprivation does weird things to my mind…

theres that spacial brilliance again, nice work

Wonderful lighting and composition Paul.

Sensational image Paul…love your style…!!

It’s the mall from the Stepford Wives! Brilliant as usual – sometimes I wish I could crawl inside your brain and soak up some of that creativity.

Very cool image… love the red details. Really great composition and colour palette. I think this style of yours has gone from looking a bit like a ‘Smart’ to now looking purely a Vanzella!

Love the open spacious feel.

The repetitive lines stop this from being boring …along with the red bits :)

And then out of it all but looking like he was meant to be is this guy in shorts, long socks and a plastic shopping bag.

Love your headspace :)

Still trying to work it out..such sublime and subtle colours yet it still “stands out” – then there is the social commentary that sits behind the visual…. and where else would you have found such a fashionable model???

Its those unexpected moments that work the best don’t they. Well balanced with all mediums. Once again Paul, superb work!

eerie…creepy…thought provoking. love the shafts of light!

A very surreal urban scene and that red ball must have surely been put there for you! Only you could turn this simple scene into one full of interest. Excellent processing\Styling

This is a fantastic composition and photo that tells a story.

Great Paul!! you did it again…

Very nice Paul. The concessional palm tree courteously provided by the mall designer towers defiantly over the lonely shopper – but is in turn dwarfed by the overwhelming and impersonal monolith of textured wall. The subtle diagonals of light and the universal red sphere deliver a hint of hope for our insignificant consumer. Nah, I can’t read much into this one.

sure you went to the wrong one paul ;-) love the different shades of grey and the guys white socks.

Love the tonal quality of your images, and how you can make a rather mundane view so very compelling viewing. Great work.

You have your creative signaturs on all your works.
Genious and very inspirating to see.

This is the Vanzellian style that sucked me into your portfolio so long ago….and kept me there entranced….yep, and here I am, still entranced! The scale all seems so off, somehow, which appeals to me….I do like the disorientating effect.

what an amazing eye you have.

cooool imagine that…finding a red bubble ball at the mall :O)))

very cool !! great POV and lighting

Wonderful, full of little surprises :)

one for the next book…. everything fits.. but everything is off…. your wonderful sense of light holds it together…...................b

I agree with Mel..this is your style and it works..amazing work..

wow…how cool does this look….love it! This is my fave store…lol!

Fantastic Paul, just love it! Colour, PP, comp. Just wonderful

It strikes me that the one natural thing in the photo, the palm tree, looks a bit lost and wondering how it got there! Perfect depiction of the bland ‘perfection’ that has taken over so much of our land. As always, love the cool flat tones and how your capture of an everyday moment turns somehow a bit bizarre and comedic.

sastounding work paul, simply amazing.

sorry about the typo paul, should have been – astounding work paul, simply amazing.

You’ve made Target a thing of beauty. Millions past this familiar place and don’t see the moment you were able to capture.

Very beautiful work, well done

Very well composed and executed. Well done, Paul.

Brillant shot. The composition is fantastic

what a lovely shot and love the finished image so nice and wonderful well done

Startling. Wonderful execution Paul.

This definitely looks like an illustration Paul. So unrealistically realistic that it’s hard to believe it’s a photograph. I like that kind of effect! It’s jarring to the senses and way too perfect in it’s clinically precise organization and flat tonality which you know how to effect so well. Very cool image!

Very f*cking cool!!!

Quite surreal – very illustrative Paul.

Great observation of patterns and shapes.

Love all the elements here Paul ,terrific treatment as always.

Another brilliant work by the Maestro himself, you really are good Paul it’s a terific image, I like the softness of it with the strong red highlights.
Cheers,
Rock

I have to say, I can tell it is a Paul Vanzella from the thumbnail now! Superb work, what can I say, the composition, the lighting, and the color are exquisite! What a wonderful moment of serendipity! Guess you were meant to go to that mall all along…

excellent style, you have great balance to your work, nice….

I’m glad you went to the wrong mall too Paul : ) !! this is awesome.. how do you get that painted look? you are the Master…no doubt! Wen xox

So nostalgic.

I really like the way the lines in this image intersect. I admit I am a fan of your urban landscape shots where the focus is on the landscape rather than the individual.

They seem to have an alienating feel as if the landscape is the character and people are the intruders.

So depth is dead, eh? And so’s the vanishing point? Hmmmm… Even balls become saucers? And people… people and trees all become refugees from Road Runner adventures… where they go flat as Charley Coyote after a run in with a steam roller? And… and… Skies are that yellow color that look like mid day on Mars? And everything’s disciplined by walls that are stricter than a vinyl Dom? And the one thing that’s squeezed entirely away is any sense of the romantic? And… and… Oh yeah, there’s that palette where even the hot colors are cool? Erg… you live in a whirled world Paul. Fortunately you have such little appetite for control, eh?

Wonderfully edgy…

Nice work.

Poetry in motion, the red bubble rolls and the one man left standing is the pin upon which the scene flows…....Target never looked so otherwordly, and now, I wonder if someone put something in my tea, besides TEA! WOW – what goes on in that mind??? You twisted artist – and how now that you let it all out, one photo at a time, so as not to overwhelm…..And yet, I sit in awe, overwhelmed, and aghast that our staid world is so altered on its axis, wondering, how to right this, and why? Why, indeed?? Let’s keep your view alive and see what slides off the page, and lands in our laps, so we babysit the bits and pieces you exclude, and take them for our own, to create new worlds of such mystery and brilliance and depth…..

SPOT ON, Paul. AMAZING. Again…

brilliant image Paul… love the composition,, well done

an exceptional piece of work Paul, brilliant… the red ball and trolleys are the icing on the cake!

i love the contrast between the stark man-made structures and nature’s imperfections. yes, man added a few red objects to break monotony. i guess they do not need watering unlike the palm. Well observed.

Mmmm… I’d hang this on my wall;-)

A very ‘classy’ image, Paul !!!! Excellent composition, perfect subtle tones and lighting (even down to the light shaft falling on the man) Good to see that RB have opened a retail outlet, complete with their own shopping mall trolleys !!!
True ‘Paul Vanzella’ classic artwork !!

So now the trollies get a red dot too? :D

What a fabulous landscape, where colours automagically recur, the walls are like massifs, and the trees look like they sure as hell don’t belong there!

Fantastic PP work, Paul!....it almost doesn’t look like a photo anymore.

the use of red (i want one of those shopping trolley’s) really adds a nice punch to this image paul!
love your mix between surreal and real ;-) xox

beautiful image

I’m thinking it’s Target. (though I could be wrong…)
You manage to move everything around in my brain when
I see this so that the sizes are all screwy. VERY neat. :)

Wow!!!!
I love how clean and uniform you make everything look.
Great lines and angles..
Love the red bubble.
I wonder what the man just chucked in the bin?
Love where you have placed the lighting on him… hehe.
The palm tree looks so odd there..Like its not meant to be there.
Funny how the bubble looks more in place than the tree…..
And yet they are in line with each other
And I see a slight crack running up the wall. At least I think there is.
Its like the foundations are starting to crumble…Like things arent quite what they seem…
Hairline fractures in a rock solid world..
And why would the bench be placed with the tree near dead centre?
If you had three people sitting on it, the one in the middle wouldnt be able to see ahead.
That person may as well be facing the brick wall.
But the man is walking away …Or towards…Who knows, depends if you want to be negative or positive.
I bet there is milk and a newspaper in that bag he is carrying.
x

Yet another one – I’m captivated by these minimalistic images. They have a touch of Jeffrey Smart about them.

Wonderful! Sorry I missed this. Excellent!

Cool image, why does it remind me of a Lego scene lol, Unique and so you :))

You’ve done it again Paul – making the extraordinary out of the ordinary.

love this!!! superb work!

So constructed – reminds me of a toy i had in the 70’s – like a miniature slot together architecture set with thin steel rods you would slide the panels on to…they had faux texture just like this.

SO brill – punctuated by the black orb, trollys, the weird tree and of course the guy.

Paul, you make it look so clean, surreal, can’t put my finger on it ..so magic will have to do..brilliant work’)

Dont think i didnt notice you had changed this – I was looking for calendars – do you have calendars? No? Si? Ja?

:-)

brilliant

I like a lot what you did here…brillant Paul!

Another clever work of true art!

brilliant image/love it

wow Paul, this is exceptional.

simple but very effective , Paul…another well executed image…

wow, stunning. love all the red connections along the baseline.

excellent work

Ok so here it is…send me a private bm and tell me how the heck you do your editing, cause at first glance I can’t tell if it’s a photo or a painting…(I know it’s a photo), but if I didn’t know you I couldn’t tell…huh huh…ok ready for your instructions, OMG Paul you freaking AMAZE me!!!!!!!

I am fairly new to Redbubble and I enjoy finding new people’s work, usually by seeing that they have commented on something I also commented on. That is how I came to this incredible photograph. This is a really great photograph, it represents the style of photography that I would love to excel at myself. – Cora

Ha ha, I love it! I have wanted to take a picture of that big red ball outside of Target soooo many times I can’t even tell you!! :) (Still haven’t done it!) Great job. :)

An ordinary scene made exceptional. The shafts of light illuminating the figure and the red sphere —outstanding.

love the red in this – another masterpiece!

very cool!!

you’re a master in my eyes!! All I can say is wow as I pull my jaw up from the ground.

How surreal! Awesome, Paul!

Fantastic shot!

Target never looked this good. :0) Beatuful treatment.

Looks like something by David Hockney!

Fantastic textures ad colours. All the subjects appears as graphical items to me. They are like little icons of the post-industrial world placed against an urban landscape which was magically reduced as a flat scenography. I like the man and the palm tree. They are lost in this landscape and they look like aliens compared to the inorganic world built around them.

Love it!!

Exquisite composition “grabbing” the american mall perfectly (is it a Target?) – the soft light seems to caress the shot; and all the elements seem to be perfectly placed, a tribute to your framing – kudos!

it’s intriguing seeing things through your eyes… definitely unique!