Description:
This is work is part of a series of paintings based on Botticelli's Birth Of Venus. The ideas for this series is based on Monet’s series of the Rouen Cathedral paintings. If you are not familiar with the Rouen Cathedral series, it was a series of paintings, more than 30 in all, that Monet painted of the Rouen Cathedral in France. Most, but not all, are painted from the exact same vantage point on similar sized canvases, giving the effect of making the same painting over and over. But each was painted at different times of day, with different color palettes, and in different sorts of light. The result was an exploration of how light and color changes through time.
In addition to being based on Monet's series, the idea also embraces one of the central tenets of Pop Art, as embodied in the quote by the father of Pop Art (and some say the first Pop Artist), Richard Hamilton, when describing the essence of Pop Art. He stated Pop Art should be: “Popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business.” While not all Pop Art embodies all of these qualities, most of it speaks to some, and this series would do so as well, especially the “popular” (as I will use popular images), and “mass-produced” (as I am obviously making numerous paintings of the same image, much like Warhol did with his prints).
This is the third work in this series.
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