KISS by Roy Lichtenstein after comic book
•
KISS KISS by Bob Kessel
after Roy Lichtenstein after comic book
•
Bob Kessel’s art series “RECONSTRUCTING ROY” is based on the works of Roy Lichtenstein. This picture and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.
•
Roy Lichtenstein by Bob Kessel
•
“The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.”
- Roy Lichtenstein
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” - Pablo Picasso
original comic book frame
•
IN THE CAR by Roy Lichtenstein
•
IN THE CAR by Bob Kessel
Bob Kessel’s art series “RECONSTRUCTING ROY” is based on the works of Roy Lichtenstein. This picture and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.
GUITAR PLAYER by Bob Kessel
after Pablo Picasso
•
“GUITAR PLAYER” by Bob Kessel, is based on the works of Pablo Picasso from his early “Blue Period”. It can be purchased as a signed and numbered limited edition original fine art print.
Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.
Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period refers to a series of paintings in which the color blue dominates and which he painted between 1901 and 1904. The blue period is a marvelous expression of poetic subtlety and personal melancholy and contributes to the transition of Picasso’s style from classicism to abstract art.
For Picasso the blue period was an exercise in painting scenes of low light conditions. He would borrow from the Spanish painter El Greco, the light-yellow, almost white, macabre skin color that adds to the mystique and sense of death of Picasso’s blue period paintings.Although Picasso’s blue period melancholy was sincere, the people he painted have an element of pathos and melodrama. The reason for the starving artist myth having become so popular, is that intellectuals and artists at the beginning of the twentieth century would like to see themselves as such. To them an artist was a social outsider by definition and they would indulge in cultivated depression and romanticize their own supposed martyrdom.
MINOTAUR OVER SLEEPING GIRL by Bob Kessel
after Pablo Picasso
•
Bob Kessel’s art series “HABLO PABLO” is based on the works of Pablo Picasso. These pictures and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.
Picasso used horses and bulls, specifically the Minotaur, as representations of himself in his later works. Picasso frequently depicts “the beast” as blind, angry, and slightly confused, often led by the hand of a young girl. The Minotaur, a half-bull-half-human creature from Greek myth, lived on the island of Crete, imprisoned in the Labyrinth of the notoriously cruel king Minos. The Minotaur sated his appetites, both sexual and gastronomic, on young maidens and is frequently regarded as an icon of sexual perversion and cruelty. Picasso’s later representations, then, in which the self-referential Minotaur requires the gentle guidance of a child is ironic. The Minotaur alludes both to Picasso’s famous sexual appetites and to an emotional or psychological distance between himself and the women in his life; indeed the artist depicts himself as entirely different species from the women in these paintings!
Vollard Suite: Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman (1933) by Pablo Picasso
