These questions ultimately led McAdams to create “Paint,” a film about a Bob Ross-like local celebrity named Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson) who has a painting show on Vermont public TV. Carl shares several notable traits with Ross: permed hair, a soft-spoken delivery and a penchant for painting bucolic landscapes.

Bob Ross The official YouTube channel of "The Joy of Painting" and Bob Ross. Watch and paint along with every episode of The Joy of Painting! Happy painting!

Robert Norman Ross Bob Ross, in full Robert Norman Ross, (born October 29, 1942, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. - died July 4, 1995, New Smyrna Beach, Florida), American painter and television personality whose popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting (1983–94) made him a household name as the painting teacher to the masses.

Bob Ross was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1942. DePaul Art Museum featured Bob Ross's work in the past. Bob Ross's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 200 USD to 10,240 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

Plot. Carl Nargle has hosted Vermont's number one painting show for nearly three decades. His status as a superstar of public broadcasting is challenged when the struggling TV station hires Ambrosia, a younger painter who has more skill and versatility than Carl.

The landscapes he painted, typically mountains, lakes, snow and log cabin scenes, were inspired by his years in Alaska, where he was stationed for the majority of his Air Force career.

To be clear, Paint is not about Bob Ross, Adams explains to me during a video interview. The film, which Adams wrote 13 years ago and directed during the pandemic, is inspired by Ross and musician Gordon Lightfoot (whose “If you could read my mind” is key to the film's climax).

Seamus Wray It's paintings all the way down Seamus Wray is a painter in Chicago whose latest project is a recursive self-portrait that's impossible to look away from. Wray is calling the series selfportraitception, and each painting is more baffling than the last - especially once the cats start appearing.

Francisco Goya The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.

Ad Reinhardt Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960–66 After 1953, Reinhardt made only black canvases. His simple, meditative works are the antithesis of the action paintings of the Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock.

List of 7 Most Expensive Paintings In The World 2023

• Mona Lisa - $970 Million.
• Salvator Mundi - $450.3 Million.
• Interchange - $300 Million.
• The Card Players - $250 Million.
• Nafea Faa Ipoipo - $210 Million.
• Number 17A - $200 Million.
• Wasserschlangen II - $183.8 Million.

"A Walk in the Woods," painted on air by Bob Ross in 1983, is up for sale for nearly $10 million. It's hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start.