Saturday, March 31, 2012

Tim W11(Finally Finished): Neo Classical





Disclaimer: It's now 3am, so I may vehemently disavow all text that follows at a later date.

Hey look I finished my "Re-imagined Masterpiece"! For this weeks topic I used Ingres: "La Grande Odalisque (1814)", but since this is the "Rust Belt Monster Collective" and not the "Stuffed Shirt Snooty Academic Collective" (i'm just kidding BFA peeps... chill) I drew a robot chick.

If I remember my Art History, Ingres was a pretty mainstream academic Neoclassicist in his day, a movement that looked to the past for its inspiration, so using one of his paintings to inspire a futuristic fantasy is pretty funny to me. But then again, the academic style of the time was to paint Nymphs and Satyrs fornicating (-my attempt at keeping my RBMC PG-13 ish...at least in the text), a theme that is pretty fantastical, so maybe i'm not that far off.

Hey If you want to see my process in making this masterpiece head on over to my blog

2 comments:

  1. Mesmerizing. I really like your choice in laying the shadows across the body. Way more challenging than anything I would attempt now, but down the road I will probably steal it. Great work as always.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I knew it'd be worth the wait. And I was right. Great atmosphere, color. Yep.

    ReplyDelete