Characters on Canvas

Quentin Massys

Feel free to analyze, question, caption and otherwise wonder about this painting, as long as you leave with a smile...

Love,
G.

Characters on Canvas (or whatever)

Here are a few art characters to help launch you into a new year. I'm not betting it'll be any better but onward we go. For me, after seeing these images, I'm in with a smirk and a smile. That's gotta be worth something, right?   :-)

Wishing you a Happy, Love-Filled New Year!

 Above we have an X ray of Snow White with an embroidered head.

Mathew Cox

Silicone sculptures by Thomas Kuebler 

Characters on Canvas

The work of Alan Macdonald

"It took me years to realise that it is the darkness in things that I respond to, whether it is a painting by Francisco Goya, a song by Leonard Cohen, a play by William Shakespeare or a film by Pedro Almodovar."

~ Alan Macdonald

Characters on Canvas

 

Unpleasant Duties of a Father

Adriaen Brouwer

What do you suppose the old woman in the background is saying?   ;-)

Characters on Canvas

  

Sweet li'l cutie-patootie 

That is a portrait entitled Old Woman. (The Queen of Tunis) by

Quentin Massys. 

 c. 1513

As it turns out, The Queen makes for a very interesting read here

Characters on Canvas

Franz Von Struck

Characters on Canvas

 

B.I.T.C.H.

(Babe in Total Control of Herself)

I like how the right part of her cloak looks like an octopus' tentacle.

:-)

 

 It's actually a portrait of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna by Russian painter Aleksey Antropov.

 1750s. I like how the right part of her cloak looks like an octopus' arm.

Characters on Canvas

Aksel Waldemar Johannessen

Rob Zombie's inspiration for The Devil's Rejects?

Characters on Canvas: Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein by Red Grooms

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown’s Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.

Gertrude Stein also appears in this photograph by Man Ray, with her Picasso-painted portrait in the background.

Characters on Canvas

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The Lawyer

1566

Characters on Canvas

 In this post, I feature a portrait by German painter and printmaker, Otto Dix

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden,

1926

mixed media on wood

Paris, Musée National d'Art Modern

Dix had met her on the street, and declared:

'I must paint you! I simply must! ... You are representative of an entire epoch!'
'So, you want to paint my lacklustre eyes, my ornate ears, my long nose, my thin lips; you want to paint my long hands, my short legs, my big feet—things which can only scare people off and delight no-one?'
'You have brilliantly characterized yourself, and all that will lead to a portrait representative of an epoch concerned not with the outward beauty of a woman but rather with her psychological condition.'^[4]