Thursday 21 October 2010

Art for Art's Sake

I love the circular nature of art.

In December we visited the Magritte museum here in Brussels, and I gained a lot of insight into this man's mind, whom I had only known previously for a hat, an apple and a pipe (or not a pipe, if you prefer).

In July, during the National Day celebrations, we witnessed a group of drama students interpreting Magritte and his work. My talented fiance took a photograph which subsequently inspired me to make this album (during the super-rainy August we had). But I knew there was more. I just had to wait for it to come out.

And this is what came out:


A tribute to Magritte, to Brussels, to Belgium, to art. Here are the 'don't be afraid' splodges:

 
 I used bubble wrap and a plastic cup to imprint the patterns on the canvas. And added some French newspaper and raindrops.
 I cut out the words with the Cricut, purely because I got to choose my exact font that way.


And there you go. That's my homage to Magritte. 

8 comments:

  1. OOH that is lovely, I like the colours, they all go so well together. Love the way the little splodges of paint look so fluid and natural.. great font as well.

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  2. I've scrolled up and down several times looking at this and taking in all the details. There is so much to see!

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  3. I came back because I meant to say thank you for your lovely comment about my writing the other day and for today's one about the dogs - my son said the Westie looked like a rat and the bulldog like a rat that had let itself go!

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  4. This is GREAT!! Love the splotges!! This is very artistic!! I must show my dd!! Thanks so much for sharing it!!

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  5. I love the textures and the little bits of subtle bling! :)

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  6. This is just amazing, such fabulous texture and colour .. love the raindrops and newspaper on it .. you've got such great talent

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  7. Oh look at that texture! Just so strokable. Love this.

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  8. that photo is quite inspirational... very nice use of paint i see... arty...

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