Wednesday, May 18, 2011

War & Peace Picasso style (project #15)



Last nights theme was War & Peace.
My last class in Picasso mode before the final show in 2 weeks!

Random shots at Louisiana in May

 Typical Louisiana view
Installation. Part of the Living exhibit this summer.
It's extremely inviting for children to climb on, but they are forbidden. It also looks like it would cave in if scaled. Most striking at night.

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Lunch in the grass-part2 (project #13 & # 14)


These two prints were inspired from Picasso's Lunch in the grass series. We drew and made impressions into a material that can be bought at a hardware store for insulating floors. It was a quick printmaking method. I enjoy printmaking and would like to explore this more in depth!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Lunch in the grass (project #12)

This painting is the result of my workshop last night at Louisiana Museum for Modern Art. My painting "iPhones in the grass" is a paraphrase, of a paraphrase, of a paraphrase, of a paraphrase, of a paraphrase, etc, get it? A family portrait, a typical scene ALMOST with my husband leaning against a birch tree and Birch happens to be our surname. I can't say I hang outside topless with my iPhone, but that was part of the paraphrase.
Le Déjeuner sur l’herb, Picasso, 1961

Apologies, a really bad iPhone shot of
Le Déjeuner sur l’herb, Paul Cézanne, 1876


Le Déjeuner sur l’herb, Manet, 1863
(from my Janson's Art History Book)

and we can go even further back with
The Judgement of Paris, Marcantonio Raimondi, after Raphael, c.1520
(from my Janson's Art History Book)

and once more back in time

River Gods, detail
3rd Century A.D. Villa Medici, Rome
(from my Janson's Art History Book)


Is my painting original? No. It's traditional.