Edgar Degas' Blue Dancers, Meets Scribbles.

 

Painting by C.T. Rasmuss is currently on display at:

The 10th Annual Watercolor Art Show at Evergreen,

presented by The Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society.

 

Opening: Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012; Noon-4pm.

230 West Galbraith Rd.

Cincinnati, OH 45215

 

Public viewing hours

9/23-10/28 I Noon-4pm

 

                                                                    Scribble of Degas' Blue Dancers,
                                                                                                    C.T. Rasmuss; 2011.

A scribble is a drawing composed of random and abstract lines, generally without ever lifting the drawing device off of the paper. Scribbling is most often associated with young children and toddlers, because their lack of hand–eye coordination and lower mental development often make it very difficult for any young child to keep their coloring attempts within the line art of the subject.
Adults also scribble, although generally it is done jovially, out of boredom (as in doodling), as a form of abstract art, or to see if a pen works. (wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribble

Well of course this is a Wiki reference, but it's written by the people for the people, so it's also popular opinion, giving it all the credit it;s needed for the purpose of this blog.  The artwork above, as you see is a painting I guess you can say, since technically I used paint pens to make the colorful scribbles that this composition is comprised of.  This Scribble was my attempt at rendering one of the great French Impressionist, Edgar Degas; it's a technique that I set out as an experiment to capture the Impressionist's great works of art in a new and modern medium without cheapening the theme or taking away from the originality of the Masterpiece by the master.

This Scribble is of Degas' Blue Dancers as seen below is I believe in my best opinion, my reproduction is not only a justifiable attempt in a modern medium, but also to put to rest any opinion that scribbles aren't just abstract lines associated with young children and toddlers or done out of boredom as doodling; but that these children and toddlers as we all once were, actually have something to say in these so-called 'just scribbles' and the people doing it out of so-called 'boredom' are possibly in the act of some kind of solace, producing something of importance.

                                                                            Blue Dancers; Edgar Degas; 1893 oil.

Seurat and the Gang; How it all Inspired a Mosaic.

                                       The Bathers at Asnières, 1884, George Seurat; in the National Gallery, London

Most importantly to a man that spent a very short life, creating but a few masterpieces of this magnitude, an artist who has more unfinished works than finished ones(for very good reasons); I ask:
 "how is this piece significant to you?"

For me the answer is: "it's the perfect intersection between perspective and composition, perfection of light and color theory the Impressionists were collectively working towards."  Seurat was is widely known for inventing divisionism & popular technique called, Pointillism; he may have contributed some of the fewest pieces out of this famous group of French artists, but they hold their equal weight in my book.

His painting featured here being his biggest achievements, in size and stature, I as well as the the majority of the art world seem to believe this to be true.  Much like Seurat, I believe that I have found my 1st 'Bathers', I title it 'Blue Vase' (synthetic mosaic seen below); a style greatly influenced by Vincent Van Gogh's impasto style, Pollock's pouring methods and largely Seurat's color theory, and later Kandinsky's theory on color composition. 

The former 3 living short lives and the later Kandinsky starting very late in life, contributed a great amount to the art world in such short amount of time.  It only makes me wonder how much I can with the possibility of even more time...if given the fortune to live a longer life like Monet, Picasso, or O'Keeffe, who all lived to be almost 100 years old

 Blue Vase  C.T. Rasmuss, synthetic mosaic (2011).