What themes do we see in art? What clichés? How might the art of Art History be re-imagined to re-contextualize our understanding of the art, and of ourselves? In these images I have appropriated the art of the past & composited it with my own photographs of nature. I have done this to look at artworks in new ways, to look at my own photography in new ways, and to seek out new relationships between each.
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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” (Cesar Cruz)
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” (Henry David Thoreau)
Paradise in Transition (2018)
[appropriated artwork is Édouard Manet’s 1863 Luncheon on the Grass]
Rest (2018)
[appropriated artwork is Vincent Stiepevich’s ca. 1900 Reclining Beauty]
Michael Strikes (2018)
[appropriated artwork is Luca Giordano’s 17th C. Archangel Michael Hurls the Rebellious Angels Into the Abyss]
Fool’s Gold (2017)
[appropriated artwork is Artemesia Gentileschi’s ca. 1612 Danaë]
Ariel’s Rapture (2018)
[appropriated artwork is Henry Singleton’s 1819 Ariel on a Bat’s Back]
Dying Metaphor (2017)
[appropriated artwork is Albrecht Dürer’s 1507 Eve
…as excerpted from Adam & Eve]
Bloom (2017)
[appropriated artwork is Edouard Degas’ ca 1899 The Dancers]
The Sting of Spring (2017)
[appropriated artwork is Pierre Auguste Cot’s 1873 Spring]
Defense Mechanisms (2017)
[appropriated artworks are Francisco de Goya’s 1823 Saturn Devouring His Child & an unknown photographer’s 1966 photograph of F105 Thunderchiefs]
Obscenity (2021)
[appropriated artwork is Pedro Berruguete’s ca 1500
Virgin and Child Enthroned
& a 2021 auction photograph of a Walther PPK semi-automatic pistol]