The Kick-About #53 ‘At The Circus’
some artistic thoughts about the circus…
The last edition of The Kick-About marked our second birthday and two year’s of fortnightly creative challenges encouraging artists of all stripes to make new work in a short time. As such, it was something of a three-ringed circus, an eclectic, celebratory showcase with a little bit of something for everyone. How appropriate then our first prompt of the new Kick-About year should focus our attention on the circus paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. ‘Roll up, roll up!’
Tom Beg
“I was instantly drawn to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s line drawings that he produced much earlier in his career, and felt perhaps there was a way to capture the immediacy, simplicity and instinctiveness of those sketches with the modern digital tools I typically use. Channelling the spirit of an earlier Kick-About, Herzog’s Dancing Chicken, which also evoked manic movement and energy, I just applied the same techniques but attempted to reduce it…
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I’ve always found dummies and marionettes kind of eerie-creepy- skewed human with a twist figures. I’ve never liked them. Your images exactly captured what I see in them. Amazing to me how you did that.
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Thanks Claudia. I’ve always been fascinated by both masks and human faces. These are kind of in between, and I was glad I could capture some of that feeling.
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I remember a local art in the park I did for many years, and for a lot of the time they featured a marionette performance as part of the entertainment. I always tried to go over there for a bit and watch, simultaneously fascinated and repelled.
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That’s exactly the feeling.
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So true human resemblance. I love all your creativity. Fascinating. Keep going. XoXo
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Thanks Selma.
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