debra wrote:
To me, those Hokasai-ish bunny rabbits are akin to the moustache on the Mona Lisa. Both work only because we've seen copies of the originals a gazillion times.
I think the bunnies would work even without the original - they're just more delicious if one knows it well. The idea of bunnies as/in the foam (as opposed to white horses in other paintings) is such a lateral step in thinking. And of course the way the bunnies are drawn is so in tune with the Hokusai woodcut style/technique. The artists have shown love and created something original with a respectful bow to the master too. The Mona Lisa moustache picure is simply a joke with respect nowhere to be seen.
IF I were an artist and could make images in this manner, here's what my Fool would look like. But I'm not an artist, and so-and-so the dead fellow was, so here's a cut from his image and I'll put the title on it.
True, I think. And in a way some sort of cut/selection lifts the finished card into a new category. To simply take a painting of Circe by Waterhouse and call it Temperance is lazy beyond belief.
Last edited on Tue Jan 15th, 2008 08:32 am by goldenweb
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