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B_Rubens

Cubistic Chapeau de Paille by Rubens
Acrylic collage. 48" x 36"

About a year after I returned from Europe I started doing large drawings and renderings of my favorite pieces. I felt liberated to have big white rolls of paper to work on instead of teenie sketchbook pads. As a result I started getting looser and looser. I started slapping collage elements and various forms of tape and folded paper onto the drawings.

These pieces were a breakthrough for me. With this newfound technology I was free to merge art history, 20th century art and all the muck in my head that serves as content. Cubism for Girls was born.

 

B_Drawing

Drawing of Ruben's
Chapeau de Paille
Charcoal pencil on paper

B_Cubism_Study

Cubism Study
Charcoal on paper

 

 

B_Delacroix

Study of Delacroix's Algerian Women
Acrylic on paper. 44" x 60"

I started by doing large loose renderings from the sketches I'd done in Europe and from art books.

 

 

B_Delacroix_drawing

Drawing of Delacroix's Algerian Women
Charcoal pencil on paper

 

B_Tintoretto

Study of Tintoretto's Ariadne, Venus and Bacchus
Acrylic on paper. 44" x 38"

 

 

B_David_Drawing

Drawing of David's Madame Recamier
Pencil on paper

 

B_David

Study of David's Madame Recamier
Acrylic on paper. 38" x 44"

 

 

B_Titian

Study of Venus of Urbino by Titian
Acrylic collage. 12" x 17"

 

 

B_Cubistic_Madonna

Cubistic Madonna
Charcoal on paper. 60" x 36"

 

B_Manet_Olympia

Study of Manet's Olympia
Charcoal on paper


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