l’Etoile (
The Star) by
Edgar Degas, interpreted by me, Mike R. Baker.
The
original (Degas) is pastel, painted in 1878.
Dance? Or redo a famous painting?
Hey, artists! Just loving all your work! Thank you all so much for participating. I hope you're having fun.
I'm just posting here now to make a request. Please add your blog or flickr or website link at the bottom of each of your posts! When people find they like your work, they might want to see more! Post like I have done below.
Magritte's Son of Man [
link]
Retold by mike r. baker
I've had an on/off project of redoing famous art with animals. So here's Picasso's Girl In The Mirror, with a zebra.
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Klimt's Mother and Child (detail from The Three Ages of Woman)
Artist:
FHNavarro
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
retold by mike r. baker
I've been doing a lot of these. I'm aiming to do at least 21. You can see them
on my bog.
Alien Gothic
What can I say, I love to depict aliens in human "earthling" settings. Of course this is recognizable as the iconic American Gothic with my version called Alien Gothic. I did this piece with prismacolor markers and colored pencil highlights. This was displayed at the Rahr West art museum in Manitowoc, WI along with many other works of art from some very talented artists from our art group "Art and About". I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. This design was used on the 2009 t-shirt for Spuntnikfest held in Manitowoc.
ABOUT SPUTNIKFEST
Its early morning on September 6th, 1962 and the skies over Manitowoc are illuminated with an eerie green light. A bright object, burning like the sun creates an arc and plunges toward earth crashing smack dab in the middle of 8th Street! 49 years later…it’s wacky! It’s tacky! It’s time to celebrate with Sputnikfest 2011! Be hokey, fun, and ridiculous! Join us in September at the Rahr West Art Museum for dancing in the streets, extraterrestrial snacks, an Artta this World Art Fair and a galaxy full of fun and frolic as we celebrate Manitowoc’s link to the space age!
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| My design on the 2009 Sputnikfest t-shirt |
This is my second illustration for this challenge. Mrs. Pincus made the suggestion for this version and I thought it was a good idea — despite my dislike for Norman Rockwell’s work.
Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence, a delicate portrait of eleven-year old Sarah Barrett Moulton and
Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, a portrait of a young man believed to be Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, were purchased by American railway pioneer Henry Edwards Huntington and displayed opposite each other in his private collection at, what is now, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
Since their chance pairing in the early 1920s, many gallery visitors have mistakenly attributed the two painting to the same artist. In reality,
Blue Boy depicts a young man in period costume from one hundred and fifty years earlier and
Pinkie is a contemporary painting (for 1794) of a young girl dressed appropriately for the late eighteenth century. In addition, the paintings were completed twenty-five years apart. The actual identity of
Blue Boy remains a mystery, but years of research points to young Buttall as the most likely model.
Pinkie was commissioned by the grandmother of Sarah Barrett Moulton, aunt of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, although young Sarah passed away just a year after the painting's completion.
William Wilson, author of
The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums, calls them "the Romeo and Juliet of Rococo portraiture".
By: mike r. baker,
on 3/8/2011
you really have great style and creativity. and you seem to be a fast worker ;-)
bravo!
ok, this one is my favorite, I think, I really like them all though, your versions are so fun
wonderful
ohhhh i love this one a lot!