Post Images Inspired By Other Artists

Hiya Mike,

My self portrait was inspired by Henri Fantin-Latour's portrait of Edouard Manet. As you can see by my portrait, I made some necessary changes to make it an original and my own. But the flavor of the Henri Fantin-Latour masterpiece is evident in my painting.

I have always loved the winter scenes by Joseph Farquharson with his bright sunsets and snow and some of my paintings show this i think.

@ Mike, Please forgive my ignorance but what is Steampunk ?

Pardon me Mike for interjecting this, but my friend, Art Donovan describes it here:

@ Harold, Thank you. Now that's one less thing of which I'm ignorant.

steampunk is sort of a victorian neo science. blimps with big levers, moriarty, 2000 leagues under the sea, a number of other titles use steampunk. it's sort of like we had a war right after the victorian industrial age, and nothing else was invented. plastic, rubber, electricity, etc - never made. instead they rely on clockwork, fancy victorian themes, leather, belts and the like. it's an odd sub culture of technology.


---Mike Savad

Thanks Mike

Much of my work was influenced by a Russian/American artist I collected years ago: Shimon Okshteyn

Well this was actually a commission of an actual dog but every time I look at it it screams Charles Burton Barber

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So happy to be a small part of this project.

Inspired by You Mike :)

Justinian Justice (WIP):

The design itself is a derivation of Peter Paul Ruben's Battle of Anghiari, a copy of Leonardo's painting long disintegrated:

I like the look of Man Rays' "rayographs" although, this is a straight photo of a reflection of a decorative clock in the sun.

The following images were all inspired by pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein and Shepard Fairey.

This is inspired by the Danish artist Julie Nord, actually quite a few of my paintings are

Ansel Adams (in color?)

Van Gogh's "Starry Night" inspired.

Inspired by the character, Harry Haller from Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf.
Also there is a touch of MC Escher including an impossible geometric construct within the composition.

I wouldn't say it's "inspired by" but this image reminds me of some of the amusement park images taken by Holga photographer, Michelle Bates.

I'm never surprise by the people who use any opportunity to post their work, whether it relates to the discussion at hand or not. LOL

Inspired by reading Kandinsky.
I get more views on abstract art from Europe than anywhere else.

Inspired by the hard edged rectangles of Mondrian.

Mike, I love the Starry Night Steampunk. Very nice. Also, I want to thank you for starting this thread. It reminded me of a shot that has been sitting on my hard drive for over a year. It was inspired by Ansel Adams, who did a similar shot--yes, in color.

"Ode To Magritte In Retro"



Title explains itself.

Glenn McCarthy Art and Photography

Cool discussion here. Very nice artwork of everyone. Thanks. These are my works inspired by Manet, Rembrandt, Warhol, Cassandre, Van Gogh, Hopper:

Anthony van Dyck

To view the Anthony van Dyck image above, just click on the blue question mark. I don't know why but lately every image I post comes up like this...duh, maybe Beth can fix?

A liitle Dali, a Little Escher

I once entered a painting in a good, local art show. After the show was over I got a letter from a viewer who complained that a portion of my painting looked like a part from a Chagall painting. Now I never copied anything! So I did some lengthy research on Chagall and found a Sunday News section of a newspaper from many years ago, which had a Chagall painting shown, & did have some similarity to the viewers complaint of my work. I returned with an answer that I never used that, nor copied it and mine was not even painted similarly. So, do we retain images in our mind and they can come out in our art, even though we are not intending to copy another artist's work? Just a thought!

My ode to Escher in photograph form:

Yeah this is my "Starry Night", i linked this two until last discussion:



And Iris inspired by Van Gogh, with my respects to this real artist.



And this inspired by The Doors:

"Purple Lady" by Shimon Okshteyn



"Purple Lady" by Chuck Staley

This is my version of the famous artist and sometime moderator JC Findley. Ofcourse, JC has outsold mine 50-1 but hey...I tried! ;c)

-Peter

Here is a WIP sketch slated for a large oil on canvas:

The design itself is a derivation of Peter Paul Ruben's Battle of Anghiari, a copy of Leonardo's painting long disintegrated.

oops...already posted this one..........

Thank you Mike

Inspired by Monet's many Waterlily paintings

My stained glass orginal chapel installation was influenced, in part, by my admiration for Bertram Brooker (1888-1955). This multi-talented artist was the first Canadian to exhibit abstract art in Canada. He was closely associated with the Group of Seven, especially Lawren S. Harris.



His 'Sounds Assembling' painting -- exhibited in Toronto in 1927 -- was the first of his works I viewed in print, and later at the Winnipeg Art gallery.

Only the greatest artist of them all - who ever created this big blue marble with all it's beauty - that's my inspiration - I'm just a bad copyist.

As for my 'abstractions' - I haven't a clue - I used to wander the halls and rooms of museums - mostly disliking any and all "modern" art - and still do think that much of the, by definition, Modern Art stuff is junk - and not art at all - but made for the guppies that were afraid to say that it was junk - so they bought it to prove that they were 'in the know'. Now I create it myself - some is "pretty" and aesthetically pleasing, colorful, to the eye - some is probably "junk".

Guess who...



bob

I don't think I need to say who influenced these images!

Same here Mike;)

Magritte:

Andrew Wyeth and Alfred Hitchcock:

Cubism:

Inspired by you Mike:

Tribute for the fantastic dreamy paintings of Jane Small, the artist whom I met on Faa. Thanks a lot for the inspirational art, Jane!




The the photography executed in impressionistic style and inspired by the color palette of Claude Monet:

Inspired by Caravaggio's "The Lute player"

Inspired by the famous 'dust-bowl' era B&W photograph "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, this updated colorized version shows the central figure emerging not unscathed but still undefeated from an unidentifiable darkness swirling around her. The bathing light shows a face of strength, determination, and humanity. Grace, dignity, and femininity in the figure's pose seems to shake off the darkness. A timeless beauty, undiminished by the mars of suffering or the carving done by the obstacles of life.

My inspiration? hmmmmmm