Product Description
A pretty frame around a wicked profile. Neoclassical Pop Art's pink-blue-pink new version is a new painting, a softer frame for a grotesque from a Renaissance notebook. Pink doubled around blue softens the grotesque into salon entertainment, and the face gets funnier the longer it stays.
Neoclassical Pop Art's “Caricature” frames the 1645 etching “Caricature” by the graphic artist Wenceslaus Hollar, made after Leonardo da Vinci and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in pink, blue and pink again. The pretty colour makes the grotesque profile funnier.
During the 16th century, caricature art was regarded as a highly-esteemed art form.
Although Leonardo da Vinci is widely known for his achievements as a painter during his life, his caricatures, comics, and grotesque were regarded as some of his most popular and influential artwork. One can say they bridge between the ancient Medieval world visions of Bosch and Bruegel and the succeeding 17th-century graphic art.
Da Vinci's observation of human physiognomy and fascination with unusual and eccentric features gave birth to unique grotesque drawings he titled "visi monstruosi" -monstrous faces inspiring Hollar's artwork.
The 16th-century art historian, Giorgio Vasari, implies that da Vinci was stalking the people adopted as a model for these drawings and noted da Vinci was 'so delighted when he saw curious heads... that he would follow anyone who had thus attracted his attention for a whole day, acquiring such a clear idea of [them] that when he went home he would draw the head as well as if the [person] had been present."
The Neoclassical Pop Art artwork brings forth a colorful decorative appropriation of both da Vinci and Hollar's work. If you like caricatures and comics, this work is just right for you.
A collectible original artwork. Created by the Neoclassical Pop Art studio as an original contemporary painting.
The tension is the reason to own it.
Here the old masters meet pop culture in a collectible statement piece made for true art lovers.
- Creator : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Year of Creation : 2018
- Dimensions : 30"x30" (76x76 cm), or a custom size on request
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Movement & Style : Neoclassical Pop Art
- Hand-painted in oil on stretched canvas
