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″
American Abstract Expressionist Painter
January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956
I figure a brief mention that today is the anniversary of Pollock’s birthday is in order. Love it or loath it, his work acted as a fulcrum of sorts in the world of art, and many of us continue to work in a direction initially laid out in large part because of him. So here are a couple of images and a short vid.
Lee Krasner, Stella Pollock and Jackson Pollock
image from website dedicated to “The Artist’s Palate, Cooking with the World’s Great Artists” a book by Frank Fedele
Enchanted Forest, 1947
Oil on canvas
87 1/8 x 45 1/8 inches
Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 76.2553.151. Jackson Pollock © 2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
image borrowed from http://www.guggenheim.org/
After the break is an excerpt from Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg’s 1950-51 film of Pollock working. Read more »
Artists have always looked to the past for inspiration or simply to learn from the masters. Transcription is the term for the process of making a work based on a preceding work by another artist.
This is a study and a larger work in progress. Based on the painting by Tiepolo, depicting the martyrdom of that old kidder, the apostle Bartholomew. The story is he was flayed alive and crucified upside down. Well that’s a fun-filled story, but what I responded to was the design and movement of the original.
– Tom Bennett
monotype, 18″ x 12″
In progress, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″
the original: The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, Tiepolo, 1722
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