Theme: Masters of the Old Wild West
Technique: Abstraction
Hosts: Pam Clark, Jan Johnson
Due Date: July 6, 2013
Using the one of the Master Painters of the Old Wild West
(Frederick Remington, Charles Russell or any other Old West Artist), select a painting
to use as your inspiration, but create a quilt that would be an abstract of
this painting. You could use Pablo Picasso's Cubism using cylinders, spheres,
cones, triangles, cubes, etc. to depict your Western Painting in abstract
style. Use at least one form of embellishment. Be sure to either show the
painting you used for inspiration or tell us the title and artist of the
painting you selected (providing a link would be fine).
Charles Russell paintings: http://www.charlesmarionrussell.org/
Frederick Remington paintings:
Background info on Pablo Picasso
Picasso's Cubism Period where he used cones, cylinders,
spheres to depict the natural world.
Go about 2/3 of the way down the page to the black and
whites of bulls and notice the progression from 3 dimensional to just lines
made of shapes, but we can still tell that it's a bull.
Samples of Abstract Art Quilts
There are a great many abstract quilts on this page.
Here is a link showing Cubism art.
Here is a link explaining the concept of Cubism.
In this link below, Elizabeth Barton's "Edge of
Light" uses abstract art to depict a town.
http://elizabethbarton.blogspot.com/2009/04/elements-and-principlesspace-deep-or.html
or http://tinyurl.com/FFFC-82-5
Here's an example of an art quilt by Barbara Strobel Lardon
showing how she analyzes the tail of an owl and selects just
the right fabric.
http://bslartquilts.blogspot.com/2013/01/shake-those-tail-feathers.html
or http://tinyurl.com/FFFC-82-6
And one final note: have fun with this!
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