sushi art

This is inspiring me to make sushi for dinner

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A view from the opening last night at Louisiana

Here are some photos taken with my iPhone from the show we had last night at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The show marked the end of our ten week autumn workshop.

Inspiration from Walton Ford, Louisiana Workshop

This is the result of my last class at the Louisiana Workshop, 2010. We studied the paintings of Walton Ford. The key to most of his work is what he calls attraction-repulsion, which is at first you are attracted by something very beautiful and then repulsed by a closer look when you see what's really going on with the story in the painting.

There wasn't time to complete my painting in class, but when I can bring it home I'll finish the trap for the male Icebird (Isfulen). I'll have to find out what they are called in English too!

Painting workshop at Louisiana with inspiration from Anselm Kiefer's landscapes

This is the outcome of my landscape, or maybe it should be called a harborscape. It's painted in sand and chalk with paint to hold it together like glue. After studying Kiefer's landscapes in the exhibition we went back to the workshop to finish out "masterpiece" in 1 1/2 hours, which can be really hard sometimes! I kept it simple tonight. As usual I started with one idea and it transformed in a whole other idea. My inspiration came from this afternoon I was down at the harbor today helping my husband wrap up the boat for winter. Looking out at the boats still left in the water made me feel so melancholy. Another season over, the boats sit still in the water, waiting, lifeless. Well it was that or the weather it was extremely grey today. In Denmark it's called "grey in grey".

More inspiration from Anselm Kiefer - Louisiana Workshop

Filled with inspiration from Anselm Kiefer's paintings we went back to the workshop and began "painting". We used the materials and techniques as Kiefer does. We started with paint and added ashes, chalk, straw, and sunflower seeds to our canvas'. We skipped the lead (Kiefer uses a lot of lead) as it's poisonous to humans. I felt very free and expressive with these techniques and quickly dropped the palette knife and finished the painting just using my hands.  At first glance his paintings made me feel depressed and I only thought about how heavy they were. After a closer look and learning more about him and his art his paintings are not just heavy, but light as well and not only symbolize death, but also rebirth. Kiefer is known to use poetry, written words, number classification and constellations in his work. Looking forward to the workshop tomorrow night. We will be inspired by Kiefer's landscape paintings.

Sculptural Books - Kiefer Style

I just came home from my art class tonight. We used old books to make something new, tell a new story, inspired by Anselm Kiefer. The class is at the Louisiana Museum for Modern Art. We start each session in the museum looking at specific works, we talk about it, then return to the workshop to produce our own work using the techniques that we just learned about. We have to work rather fast only having about 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. It's really taught me to work faster. Next week is Anselm Kiefer's landscape paintings.