Living in Picasso's cubist dream
Oil on board, 24" X 48"
Pablo
Pablo
Living in Picasso's cubist dream
Oil on board, 24" X 48"
Every series I do is a new direction...to the chagrine of many galleries. This series will contain 12 - 15 portraits of artists from the 20th century that have had an influence on me. I started with Frida Khalo...next is a Canadian Abstract Expressionist - Jean Paul Riopelle...stay tuned more to come.... 
Jean Paul Riopelle... I did some googling on him, not ever having heard of this man. I really enjoyed some of his abstracts on one site I checked. And a book of his, 'Conversations' (?) seems like one I'd also enjoy reading.
I'd like to see how you paint him... young or old..? The pic of him on the mentioned book I found very interesting.
I'd like to see how you paint him... young or old..? The pic of him on the mentioned book I found very interesting.
He would have been in his late sixties at the time of this portrait. You will see it soon, as he was a member of a group of painters called the Automatistes...so I am doing it as automatically as possible .....they also had a manifesto written by another artsit I will be painting, Paul Emille Borduas, called La Refus Global...(the global refusal)....that sent Borduas in exile to Paris...it was an objection to the political and cultural power of the Catholic church in Quebec...it was a very powerful document........
There will be a number of Canadian artists on the list.....
There will be a number of Canadian artists on the list.....
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Zlatko Waterman
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This is a link to (a translated version) of Le Refus Global
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian ... lobal.html
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian ... lobal.html
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The next world war will witness its collapse, by destroying any possibility of international competition.
Its state of decadence will even strike those eyes that are still closed.
To break definitively with all conventions of society and its utilitarian spirit! We refuse to live knowingly at less than our spiritual and physical potential; refuse to close our eyes to the vices and confidence tricks perpetuated in the guise of learning, favour, or gratitude; refuse to be ghettoed in an ivory tower, well-fortified but too easy to ignore; refuse to remain silent -- do with us what you will, but you shall hear us; refuse to make a deal with la gloire and its attendant honours: stigmata of malice, unawareness or servility; refuse to serve and to be used for such ends; refuse all intention, evil weapon of reason -- down with them, to second place!
The past is contingency of birth, it thus cannot be sacred. We are always quits with it.
End the cascade of blows from the past which annihilates both present and future.
It is enough to disengage yesterday from the needs to today. A better tomorrow will be but the unforeseeable consequence of the present.
Our treasure is poetic resource: the emotional wealth on which the centuries to come will draw. It cannot be passed on unless it is transformed, and lacking this it is deformed.
Let those who are inspired by this endeavour join us.
We foresee a future in which man is freed from useless chains, to realize a plenitude of individual gifts, in necessary unpredictability, spontaneous and resplendent anarchy.
Until then, without surrender or rest, in community of feeling with those who thirst for better life, without fear of set-backs, in encouragement or persecution, we shall pursue in joy our overwhelming need for liberation.
[b][color=darkgreen]one more for th road[/color][/b] :mrgreen:
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