What I’m showing you today is three variations on a cat showing how I resolved this problem of the double face. The ambiquity of which view dominates can be fun and mysterious. The viewer needs to be able to see both the half face and full face. That means a half face is superimposed on a full face. To show this way of looking or being, I figured the double face would be perfect. They can accomplish this feat without moving a muscle. I love the way cats look at you but they don’t. Hmm, I liked this idea and thought that a cat would make a perfect subject for a Cubist style face. One is looking at a three dimensional object flattened as if it was two dimensional. That is one of the ideas behind the double face seen in Cubist portraits, for example. Conversely, imagine a cardboard box with all of the sides un-folded. Imagine a cardboard box before the sides are folded in, stapled or glued to make a box. To over-simplify, one of the Cubist ideas was to show different sides of something, say a cube, as if all the sides were on the same plane. (You might notice that I included a different version of “Merry MsMaggie” in the previous post). “Regal Kitty” is inspired by Henri Laurens works “Star Gazer” and “Merry MsMaggie” by Picasso. Aha! Cubism is sculptural! Yes, I’d read it, but now I could see the link and could imagine 3D on a 2D surface. But, in one of my art books, I found some sculptures and drawings by Henri Laurens done during his Cubist phase. Naturally, I looked to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first. I wanted to know how they did it what was it all about.Īs you might imagine, I looked at the masters of Cubism to get an idea about how I might create a face. I was intrigued by the different approach to perspective. I would like to tell you a little about my Cubist-style cat paintings. Three kitties, six faces? How? You guessed it, Cubism.
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