What if you had a Very Good Idea for a painting that you just couldn’t quite get enough of? What if, miracle of miracles, you had a Very Good Idea and you actually painted it. And what if you didn’t quite get what you were hoping from this attempt. Would you do a second? What if you didn’t quite like that one either? How about a third? And then would you paint a fourth? How about a fifth?
Between 1591 and 1623, Domenico Fetti painted (at least) five “Parable of the Good Samaritan” artworks. (Note: the Met attributes the first of these Domenico Fetti paintings to the year 1591, 2 years after Fetti’s birth, so the dates are a bit slippity boo.)[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”7341,7346,7342,7344,7345″ layout=”3″ gallery_style=”1″ load_in_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]And then Delacroix had the Very Good Idea to paint Domenico Fetti’s Very Good Idea again in 1849.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”7349″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]And then Van Gogh had the Very Good Idea to paint Delacroix’s idea again in 1890.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”7350″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]Just for fun, I’ve flipped Delacroix’s painting and put it with Van Gogh’s. Isn’t that interesting?[/vc_column_text][nectar_image_comparison image_url=”7353″ image_2_url=”7350″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]What do you think? Is a Good Idea worth repeating? What are your personal requirements for copies? How far will you go?
And please tell us: What is a painting by another artist that you would like to paint again?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row type=”in_container” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Each participant draws or collages an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7600″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text] Ralph Steadman Draw, paint, collage a reproduction of a famous artwork in history with your pet’s head replacing the figure’s. As much as you can, stay true to the original composition (unless you …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] In early 1918 John Singer Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war. Sargent originally thought he’d paint about the gallantry of soldiers, but after visiting the Western Front and seeing a field hospital full of …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7657″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg asked William de Kooning, an artist he idolized, to give him one of his drawings. De Kooning reluctantly agreed, and Rauschenberg….. well…. Rauschenberg erased it, and put it in …
The Good Samaritan
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A Very Good Idea
What if you had a Very Good Idea for a painting that you just couldn’t quite get enough of? What if, miracle of miracles, you had a Very Good Idea and you actually painted it. And what if you didn’t quite get what you were hoping from this attempt. Would you do a second? What if you didn’t quite like that one either? How about a third? And then would you paint a fourth? How about a fifth?
Between 1591 and 1623, Domenico Fetti painted (at least) five “Parable of the Good Samaritan” artworks. (Note: the Met attributes the first of these Domenico Fetti paintings to the year 1591, 2 years after Fetti’s birth, so the dates are a bit slippity boo.)[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”7341,7346,7342,7344,7345″ layout=”3″ gallery_style=”1″ load_in_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]And then Delacroix had the Very Good Idea to paint Domenico Fetti’s Very Good Idea again in 1849.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”7349″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]And then Van Gogh had the Very Good Idea to paint Delacroix’s idea again in 1890.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”7350″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]Just for fun, I’ve flipped Delacroix’s painting and put it with Van Gogh’s. Isn’t that interesting?[/vc_column_text][nectar_image_comparison image_url=”7353″ image_2_url=”7350″][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]What do you think? Is a Good Idea worth repeating? What are your personal requirements for copies? How far will you go?
And please tell us: What is a painting by another artist that you would like to paint again?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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