After hearing the announcement on NPR (in 1998) that Rebecca Brown was organizing a 24-hour Gertrude Stein-a-thon at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle I proposed to add an exhibit of designs I created for video presentation of Three Plays. Inspired by the preparatory goings on at Hugo House, I borrowed a pile of books on Stein from the library. Matisse has always been a favorite of mine. When I came across Gertrude Stein's literary portrait of Matisse, I decided to make a portrait of Stein in Matisse's later applique-like style, using a photocopy of a photo I found in one of the books.
Thus the title "Two Muses, Two Muses", borrowing something from both the writer and the painter, each of whom has been my muse.
My dear friend, former dancer Lori Mitchell poses with Gert for the sake of scale.
If you're an artist, which writer/ poet triggers your artwork, if you're a writer/poet, which artist has triggered your writing?
This work by Judith van Praag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
5 comments:
found your comment to Renate Stendhals "Why do something..." on SheWrites. An absolute treat your 2 Muses' great work!!! love it. Thanks for sharing
@Plantagenet Thank you for following the link from SheWrites.com and thank you double for your kind words!
Lovely work!
Yes the book I have written was nothing but dark and the second one is dark..but ahh the 3rd is much happier. I have my sunny days (a lot more of them lately) but just a song on the radio, a photo, a comment can send me back into the dark sadness..I'm either getting better at hiding it or healing!
Have a positive and powerful week!
Thank you for a wonderful comments on my blog. I'm glad you stopped by, and now I have a chance to discover your blogs.
I love your painting. Burlap is my background of choice, as I use it for all of my paintings. I simply love the rough texture and organic feel of it.
I can't say that my artwork is inspired or triggered by a writer or a poet. It's more inspired by my memories, experiences and feelings than everyday life.
Mirjana, Thanks for dropping by again. I couldn't leave your blog without commenting on your textile art, it is lovely! Your burlap paintings with their sunny imagery made me think of the two burlap panels that really show the nature of the material, I'll post them on my blog soon. Their subject matter is like night and day to yours, you'll see what I mean.
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