clorophilla

OK, these are not mere copies or counterfeiths. Are masterful imitations of famous artists' work, or painting styles. I'm talking about "falso d'autore", that is an openly and very masterful imitation of art, made by artist which are expecialy dedicated to this form of art. Not a copy, but an enterely "new" fake work of picasso, van gogh, and so on.

Here some pic of mine for example.

this could be a "certified fake" by Miro or other cubistic artist:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=102048

this could be a Dalì's fake:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=102113

and so on!

I'm askyng you not to *copy* an artist, but to *begin* that artist!

the challenge fits well with the present showcase (actually, it could well fit with ANY showcase!).

The challenge will last 3 weeks, ending at 3th of March, and the baton will be passed the next day.
enjoy!

clorophilla

you could also re-do a your own picture in a different style, as in the follow of mines:

from this "waiting"
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=103930
to this "mild cubistic waiting"
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=104097

five

I can't win because I don't have time to run a challenge right now but here are recent pics that fit:

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186170 (Morandi = start, ending up making me think of Stonehenge, and also Albers (the white square in particular)

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186190 (Morandi = start, added the three floating spheres as the equivalent of the white square from the last pic)

Clo, you thought this one fit, because it made you think of Kandinsky and Klee (two artists I quite like and studied a bunch once upon a time):

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=184844

But actually, that pic did not start with anyone else but me --- well and Q's search for of "purple" in the fruits palette theme on TD. Of course I did not find purple but hopefully still the idea of purple is some weird way.

Qsilv

Sooo... "in the style of ___"?

Ooooh temptation....! @#$you wicked wicked people.... how am I going to be able to do this.... (thinks a moment)... aaahh, I don't really need to sleep more than 4 or 5 hours a night, right? ;>

I love this approach! In fact I just did it on that 'Time Speared', for all the wrong reasons. I did NOT have time to do a proper "copy" even at the "after Magritte" level, and while I was pondering just cropping and leaving stuff out, deep down inside I really began to see it in a totally different way.

Now it tells a slightly different story... so it kind of IS an original, using elements from the Magritte affected by aspects of our Space-Age culture.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186177 ...instead of a bare room that, in losing one of its inhabitants, has wound up disabling the other, this image now speaks to a small burst of power thrusting itself into a vast and more universal emptiness...

(lol... have you read Tom Wolf's little gem, 'The Painted Word'?)

clorophilla

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186200

Not sure what is it... I started with something surrealistish... but it turned in something completely different!

bayofquinte

this is a fantastic idea to get more involvement . I'm definitely going to give this a try, but can't decide on whose 'style' to use! maybe Emily Casson....

bayofquinte

oops...I meant to say Emily Carr or A. Casson (he's from The Group of 7 I believe ) , I think both are similar in style

Qsilv

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186237

I've called this 'space for the unseen...'

BACKGROUND (aka The Rant)
Back in the 70's Judy Chicago coined the term "feminist art" and was a prime mover in the Women's Building, an art center in Los Angeles.

The whole women's movement was strident, as most revolutions are, and that aspect offended perhaps as many people as its core values outraged...

...values that women take rather for granted now, I might add.

The right to choose her own name, to have a credit card in her own name, to apply for a job without a husband's permission.

The husband could choose to move anywhere for sake of his employment and the wife must move with him --or be charged with abandonment of the home, and lose custody of their children.

She WAS allowed certain things by law, such as to own a coat appropriate to his income (fur if he earned enough to reasonably afford such, good cloth such as wool for a mid-wage earner... etc)

It wasn't that long ago, people.

Did I mention that it was not possible for her to bring charges of rape against her husband? Even if they were officially separated and he broke in to the home? Nor was she at all likely to find the police inclined to arrest him for beating her, even with broken glass... "Domestic dispute" was the catch-all term.

People were NOT shocked by that; it was an open secret.

People WERE shocked when women held marches, waved a few thousand bras around, and burned them!

Oh, and women were not allowed to wear pants to work or school. (No, children, I do not mean underpants... I mean slacks, trousers, jeans.)

But one of the most shocking things of all was that women began discussing physical sex and their own bodies. Advertisements for menstrual cycle pads and open discussion of Advil for pain relief (THAT kind of pain) were gradually allowed, first in magazines, then (gasp) on TV! (Cigarettes of course had been fine on TV for ages.)

(And women's bodies have been displayed nude for men to enjoy since forever. We're still uneasy about that dichotomy, and certain parts are still kept absolutely under wraps as secure as any Islamic garb. Men can go topless... . . . )

SO... WHAT?
What's this got to do with Judy Chicago's installation piece?

Well, she designed (and created with the help of hundreds of women and quite a few men, over several years) a 3-dimensional installation called The Dinner Party. After all, women were in charge of dinner parties. Women worked with fabrics, hospitality, nurturing, feeding... "womanly arts", not "fine art".

A triangular dining table (the triangle is a long-standing symbol for the Female... you may get as Freudian as you like with this), with 13 place settings to a side (think Last Supper), features 39 female artists important to the history of civilization but blatantly unsung in the largely male controlled "art world".

Chicago, who herself had learned boat building, welding, pyrotechnics (manly skills!) and a few other clever techniques, chose to use all of them, INCLUDING the "weaker" feminine fabric arts to celebrate these 39 women. But her coup de grace (I use the term deliberately) was to feature as the main dish for each place setting, a distinctively vulvular shape, or at least a butterfly (review your iconography if you're in doubt here).

I got to thinking about this again a few days ago and couldn't quit. I'd actually seen the installation once, although not set up with the water in the middle (water's got a classic Freudian interpretation too, especially in your dreams... just sayin')...

...and I remember how odd it seemed to me. Not because of those main plates... I got a kick out of those, and hugely admired their ornateness and craftsmanship... but rather because the only way you could enter the room (as I remember it) forced you to confront a CORNER of that table system, jabbing right at you. And I found that off-putting. (Ok, *I'm* arguably a bit odd.)

In re-thinking it, half a gazillion years later, I still feel that unwelcoming projectile jab.

The "shocking" stuff was fine in its time, and certainly THAT it was considered outrageous says a lot more about her detractors and the times than it does about Chicago.

(Art critics lo-o-o-ove to puff off how offended they are anyhow. The stir over Magritte's gentleman's pipe painting being titled "This is not a pipe" is a prime indictment... comical today.)

FOLLOWING THE THREAD
Anyway, I decided this work belonged in the modern masterpieces showcase --and that instead of just copying a section (it's all your fault, Clo! ...ok and a bit of five's), I'd allow myself to build on it. ...bringing it into the now...

MY now sees that time has moved on…. focus shifts like the tides… some issues remain… some are mere dust… and of course some individuals still carry a torch for each extreme. Women are still earning less on the dollar than men for comparably responsible positions, but it’s way better than it was.

Me, I do pretty much as I please, always have, but I’ve been very lucky… I try to be (I hope) a pleasant guest at the garden party of life.

And THAT thinking got me to remembering that when I was a kid, we always set an extra place at the table. “For the unseen guest”, said my mother, with a twinkle. She didn’t mean it religiously, although that’s where the phrase originates. We have a large and extended family, and she meant it to show a constant availability… a slightly different way of saying Grace… of making sure anyone who showed up would FEEL welcome… “See? There’s a place already set for you…”

I’d like the space to represent a welcome to more women artists who could show up…………….

five

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186433

(variation on Rembrandt portrait)

Qsilv

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186445

(sort of as if Q were channeling Frida Kahlo doing a variation on five's subject...)

clorophilla

thanks you all, for making this challenge more and more interesting!!!

clorophilla

a definitively certified cubistic fake
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186477

clorophilla

this KliaMia's pic has been posted BEFORE this challenge started, so can't partecipate, but it has to be here anyway
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186141

clorophilla

2 day left ONLY! C'mon, try to draw something in your favourite style... or what about a famous masterpiece reprocessed IN GREEN?
last chances...

marg

hallo, cloro.. umm, here is my contribution.. I'm just trying to work out which famous artist it's in the style of..

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186789

.. but I should soon be able to tell you, as I don't know that many famous artists, except for TD ones

clorophilla

thanks Marg for the last minute pic, and thanks all for having joined this challenge. It's har to chose, Five helped me by saing she has no time to carry on a challenge, but her pics (expecially the bottles+spheres) are delicious, and the "rembrandt" too!
The winner is Qsilv, for her entusiastic partecipation!
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186177
I loved so much the "Magritte", yet, as here in Italy the 8th of March we celebrate the Woman's day, the winner pic will be "space for the unseen". Beautiful results, theme and loved the new idea you connected into it.
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=186237

I just noticed also that both her pics have the idea of thr "empty space". This is an interesting concept and a great chance for reflections. Empty space makes room for the new, the unespected, and is a great source of inspiration. If all the space would be filled, all the pieces would have a place, how could life flow and thrive?

Qsilv

oh! ooops! (laughing here....)

Clo you're a sweetie; thank you so much. This was fun!

Well I'll have to go home and get a few hours sleep now to think about a new theme..........

Lizzi

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=187168
Chatfield Very Fake

Lizzi

OOps! This challenge is finished! I am too late.

clorophilla

Lizzi I noticed this just now... no matter, it is a good add of this gallery of beautiful fakes