Frida and All of Us In Progress

Artwork: #252 of 299 by Bruce Combs - REACH BEYOND

Frida and All of Us In Progress Painting - Frida and All of Us In Progress Fine Art Print - Bruce Combs - REACH BEYOND

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Frida and All of Us In Progress

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Bruce Combs - REACH BEYOND

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Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

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Good choice, Linda (Mungerson. See 'My New Love," - two photos of her cat, one with her:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/my-new-love-linda-mungerson.html
I'd swear this painting really looks almost real!!! I did a self-portrait and one of son Robbie with one of our two cats in a box. Don't know which of us you'll get because they seem to vary on different sites. What we had to do though actually was take off the bottom of the box so we could hold the cat there by the hind legs, after an overdose of catnip, of course!.

Now that Linda has started it, I suppose that everybody and her or his dog are busy preparing to post their own most beautiful cats. So, I have to get in on it early and hope that two tame cats, a monkey, and a commie artist sometimes married to another commie will out-do everyone, even if far from finished.

Well, I shall ramble on a while here since I already did my usual rambling inside. I started this painting about 6 years ago. I had mostly lost interest in painting things as most people perceive them, but I decided to do portraits to keep learning from my teacher, Jean Eliott of StudioJean in The Hague, and because I liked her a lot, even though she vociferously disliked "modern" art. I do not know why I liked portraits. I soon got to doing only dead people (their pictures, I mean, not being a Rembrandt, and others) and self-portraits because my portraits, which were not at all much more (or less) than attempts at reproducing what I could see, and I was losing friends, for "insulting" them, and or their children and or pets and or favorite politicians and other actors, etc. Then I got the idea of doing a self-portrait sort of mocking Piero della Francesco's Renaissance Duke of Urbino with the funny nose since I have one too. He got his in a nearly mortal lance fight and I got mine from a Jewish father and some brawls back when I was young and drinking and literally fighting for civil rights. Then I got the idea of trying to paint myself with very accurate copies of famous artist's self-portraits, more or less humorously in their style and dress myself. I did several of those. Once I spent several hours and could not do the mouth of one of Rembrandt's later self-portraits. If I had ever doubted, that certainly prooved how good he was and how inadequate I was. So I scrapped that one! By the way Jean Eliott, during the last few years has done a major series of copies of 10 Rembrandt self-portraits. http://www.studiojean.nl/Jean.html

I learned only later that there had been a fairly well-known movie of Frida. With fascination I had read quite a bit about her life and her painting, but I haven't gone to more than 3 or 4 movies in a lot more years than that. Nor do I know anything about current movie stars, except that from what I see on magazine covers while waiting in the check-out line, they seem to carry on (if I may say it that old-fashioned way) in quite a publicized fashion, which I can't figure why people want to read about celebrities performing the same antics that many of us regular people and most politicians, etc., practice . Anyway, I hope this fragment of a painting gives some of you a chuckle, and you can easily see where it was going so why finish it, except that I do intend to do Frida's face a lot more attention, especially the darkness around the eyes, which results from the order I proceed to paint. Peace, etc. as usual, Bruce

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