Distortion: recalling André Kertész
I was thinking of the hungarian photographer André Kertész, when I was pushing the ink and paint around. He made a series of distorted nudes, inspired by the properties of water on the human form, but using mirrors to metamorphicize the figure. My father Harry had a book of these photos and I recall first browsing through it as an 11 year old.
Elegy to Kertész, monotype, 17″ x 11″
April 30, 2009 at 9:52 am
that is freaky and wonderful.
April 30, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Wow, memories! I remember being fascinated by that book in Dad’s studio. I like your fluid Mannerist style. How about an alternate title “Woman with Long Back” , allusion to Parmigianino’s “Madonna with a Long Neck”?
April 30, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Thanks, Deb. You gave him the book, by the way. i know because i have it now.
That Parmagianino painting always freaked me out as a kid. It really should have been
titled “Madonna with the Long Baby.”
May 1, 2009 at 10:40 am
i like this one a whole bunch, Tom. the distortions, the color and the mark making all add up to an engaging whole with a sort of painful, hollow feeling.
May 2, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Thankee, Steph G!
January 27, 2011 at 1:53 am
[...] Guild of New England. Its a monotype inspired by André Kertész, who I’ve talked about before, and who’s beautifully distorted photographs of the female nude excited me as a young man. He [...]