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Remakes on Booooooom.com
posted by Bridget on 04 February 2012
Emily Keil's attention to detail is to be commended in this dotty reinterpretation of "Ohhh…Alright…" by Roy Lichtenstein.
Remakes on Booooooom.com
posted by Bridget on 03 February 2012
"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo is a simple expression of hands reaching across the celestial skies. Spencer Pidgeon's version is simply funny.
Remake on Booooooom.com
posted by Bridget on 02 February 2012
The likeness between Seth Johnson and Van Gogh is uncanny, but what is most noticeable in this remake of Van Gogh's "Self Portrait 1889" is the intensity of the gaze of the artist[s] and how Seth has managed to match Van Gogh's haunted eyes. The colours and the light have also been used to good effect.
Remakes on Booooooom.com
posted by Bridget on 01 February 2012
What I like so much about Jessica Rossi's version of "The Infanta Margarita of Austria" by Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo is the simple understanding of shape and form.
Enough said.
Remakes on Boooooom.com
posted by Bridget on 31 January 2012
Last year the booooooom website invited submissions of photographic remakes of classical paintings. The results are a mix of good/bad, fun/weird and inventive/pastiche and confirmed my thought that remaking or re-interpreting a classical image is not as easy as it might first appear.
What intrigued me as I browsed through the submissions was the frequency in which some artists popped up, in particular Frida Kahlo and how some famous paintings, such as "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, a complicated painting requiring the cooperation of friends and relatives, was reproduced so many times.
All the remakes, bar one, were of paintings and sculptures involving the human figure or still life; nothing abstract or conceptual. The exception was the reworking of Mondrian's "Composition With Red, Blue and Yellow".
The art of the remake is "a hit-and-miss game" as Jonathan Jones argues in his blog post on the project but as he goes on to write "the art of the remake is part of an age-old tradition" an essential part of the apprenticeship when the young artist learns their trade.
So this week's selection of twitter pix are taken from Booooooom's remake gallery and the remakes I have picked out either made me smile or suggested that the copier was trying to gain a greater understanding of the original image rather than slavishly copy it.
So to start we have Katie Jackson's version of "Composition With Red, Blue and Yellow" by Mondrian.
London Art Fair run down
posted by Bridget on 29 January 2012
Our last choice is Aaron McElroy who was on the Dalla Rosa stand in Art Projects. A snap shot, Jurgen Teller aesthetic, not usually my cup of tea, but there is something alluring, seductive and naïve about this young girl scratching her back.
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