Thursday, June 14, 2012

(painting) Image Orgy for the Art Historian

My latest painting is called Image Orgy for the Art Historian. It contains 75 pieces of art history going as far back as 1425.  I decided to paint it on a glass frame I rescued from the behind an art store. I started with the black outline on the front of the glass, and then flipped the glass around to paint the paintings.  To do that I had to paint the dark and light tones before painting the mid range.
Here is a list of the paintings, try to find them all:
Masaccio, Holy Trinity, 1425
Botticelli, La Primavera, 1478
Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-6
Michelangelo, ceiling of Sistine Chapel (Creation of Adam), 1508-12
Titian, Pope Paul III, 1543
Naizen, Arrival of the Portuguese, 1593  
Caravaggio, Conversion of St Paul, c1601
Rubins, The Miracles of St Francis Xavier, 1616-17
Rembrandt, The Nightwatch, 1642
van Ruisdael, Windmill at Wijk, 1665
Fragonard, The Swing, 1767
David, The Dead Marat, 1793
Kiyonaga, Interior of a Bathhouse, c1800
Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819
Goya, Saturn Devouring one of his Children, 1820-3

Millet, The Man with the Hoe, 1852-62
Monet, sketch for The Picnic, 1865-6
Manet, The Execution of Maximilian, 1867
Homer, Long Branch, New Jersey, 1869
Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875
Muybridge, Galloping Horse, 1878
Renoir, The Boating Party, 1881
Manet, a Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882
Degas, Ballet Rehearsal, 1874

Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres, 1883-4
Gauguin, The Vision After the Sermon, 1888
van Gogh, The Night Cafe, 1888
van Gogh, Cafe Terrace on the Place Du Forum, 1888
Toulouse Lautrec, Jane Avril au Jardin de Paris, 1893 
Munch, The Scream, 1893
Morbelli, For Eighty Cents, 1895
Cezanne, Cardplayers, c1890-5
Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905
Rousseau, The Snake Charmer, 1907
Braque, House and Trees, 1908
Munter, Boating, 1910
Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910
Nolde, Masks, 1911
Schmitt-Rottluff, Die Brucke membership card, 1911
Kirchner, Berlin Street Scene, 1913
Kandinsky, Improvisation NO30, 1913
Leger, Contrast of Forms, 1913
Malevich, Suprematist Composition, Black Tropezium and Red Square, 1915
Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Popova, Painterle Architectonic, 1917
Matisse, The Moorish Screen, 1921-2
Hopper, Automat, 1927
Rivera, The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City, 1931
Dali, The Presence of Memory, 1931
Orozco, American Civilization - Latin America, 1932
Magritte, Le Viol, 1934
Moore, Two Forms, 1934
Bonnard, Nude in the Bath, 1935
Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Miro, Head of a Woman, 1938
Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939
Mondrian, Fox Trot A, 1950
Pollock, Autumn Rythm, 1950
de Kooning, Excavations, 1950
Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-1

Rouault, Ecce Homo, 1952
Rothko, Green on Blue, 1956
Johns, Three Flags, 1958
Stella, Tuxedo Park Junction, 1960
Warhol, Twenty-five Coloured Marilyns, 1962
Hockney, Man Taking Shower in Beverly Hills, 1964 
Raushenberg, Retroactive, 1964
Lichtenstein, Big Painting No 6, 1965
Nauman, Punch & Judy (Kick in the Groin/Slap in the Face), 1985
Martin, The Gate 1985, 1985
Koons, Rabbit, 1986
Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
Lijun, Group Two NO , 1992
Rauch, Ubung, 1999

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

(painting) Boobscape commission


I was approached one night after work by a friend of mine, Sean.  He told me he wanted a painting for his bedroom door.  He wanted a Boobscape.  So I set off to making him a small one to see if we were on the same page.


He told me it would be facing out into the apartment so he wanted the boobs of the Boobscape to be toned down.  I then cut the sheet of paper to the dimensions he gave me and got to work.









 After I was Finished I had to cut the Boobscape in half because of the style of his door.