"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."--Picasso I spend quite a bit of time each day researching Las Meninas, both the Velazquez version and the Picasso renditions, as well as a few other responses. In order to connect more fully with Picasso, I painted a series of small oil paintings this week which were inspired by some linear sketches by Picasso. And yesterday I experimented a bit with a cubist approach to portraiture. Today I am focusing on the composition in Picasso's full scale pieces in this series, particularly on how one section flows into another. As I look at this, vague similarities to my current Zentangle project strike a chord, and I realize that it also contains aspects of cubism due to the distortion that occurs when I collage the various squares, circles, and triangles onto the surface of the mannequin.
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AuthorCheryl Hicks is a writer and an artist. She is happiest when she can combine the two pursuits. |