A Kiss for The Tree of Life, Inspired by Klimt by k Madison Moore

A Kiss for The Tree of Life

Inspired by Gustav Klimt

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I love to paint with Klimt but when I do the paintings

are endless and take so much time. He used so many

symbols and swirls and blocks of color. It takes many

sittings with drying in between and layers of glazes

to complete on of these paintings.

The Tree of Life was a very significant  painting of

his as well as The Kiss that I though it would be great

to combine my impression of his tow works into one

painting.

I guess they will cuddle under that fluffy cover after

that kiss!

 Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter known for painted erotic and romantic images in most of his paintings. However, he also did other paintings of landscapes and nature. Gustav Klimt’s tree of life depicts this same tree, with significant features on it. It connects the three worlds surrounding man; those are The Underworld, The Earth, and The Heavens. Its roots are deep into the earth, probably signifying that for life to be sustained, Mother Nature must be involved. The roots then come up to the above ground and meet into forming the tree’s trunk that is on the earth. The tree’s branches extent to the heavens. In the history of man, The Tree of Life has had a significant meaning. It has been linked with several religious practices and traditions, depicting the source and sustenance of man’s life.
The Klimt tree of life has been around forever it’s a spiritual tradition symbolizing life with its roots embedded in the earth and its top going to heaven. The tree is a symbol to many faiths of wisdom, rebirth, love, strength, friendship, redemption, and encouragement. Many artists will represent the tree of life differently. Some will just show the tree alone, some may show the tree with objects in it, yet others may show a tree with a background. All these objects in and around the tree represent many different things to many different people and artists. So for some it is not only a tree of life but how to live life.
Klimt Gustav painted Tree of Life, during his Golden Era as seen by the extensive use of the golden color on this piece. It has had thousands of different interpretations, but all of them still tend to agree that this tree has all to do with man’s living.
There is also the belief that the Tree of Life represents distinct virtues as well as qualities that an individual can possess. This includes wisdom, strength and even beauty. The religious aspect of the tree is that it represents the Creator and the tree can be applied to symbolize the creation of humans. It also represents a growth of a human. A person can have roots to their home after which will branch out to do other things with their life and new people. The trunk, in this analogy, represents the mind as well as the body with the individual, which connects almost everything together.

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An Evening with Francoise, Inspired by Picasso by k Madison Moore

An Evening with Francoise

Inspired by Picasso

Homage to Francoise Gilot

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Picasso had so many women in his life that it is hard

to keep up with them. I was very surprised that Francoise

is still alive and still painting and writing.

She is the mother of Picasso's children, The now famous

designer Paloma Picasso and son Claude. The wall paintings

in this painting are my impression of Picasso's paintings of

Francoise. The perfume bottle on the fireplace is Paloma's

famous fragrance. I can see Francoise surrounded by

beautiful things and paintings in a room like this.

Is that Picasso sneaking down the steps.....and

where is Francoise?

Françoise Gilot (born November 26, 1921) is a French painter and  bestselling author. She is also known as the lover and artistic muse  of Pablo Picasso from 1944 to 1953, and the mother of his children, Claude Picasso and Paloma Picasso. She later married the American vaccine pioneer, Salk . She was awarded a Chevalier de la  Legion d' Honneur, in 1990.

At 21, Gilot met Pablo Picasso, then 61. His mistress,  Dora Mar, was devastated to learn that Picasso was replacing her with the much younger artist. Eleven years after their separation, Gilot wrote Life with Picasso, a book that sold over one million copies in dozens of languages, despite an unsuccessful legal challenge from Picasso attempting to stop its publication.

Gilot married Luc Simon in 1954. The couple divorced in 1962. They had a daughter, Aurelia.

In 1969, Gilot was introduced to Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine pioneer, at the home of mutual friends in  La Jolia, California. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and they were married in 1970 in Paris.[They remained married until Salk's death in 1995. During her marriage, she continued painting in New Yourk, La Jolla, and Paris.

Gilot lives in New York City and Paris, working on behalf of the Salk Institute in California, and continues to exhibit her work internationally.

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The Gift, Inspired by de Lempicka by k Madison Moore

The Gift - After Tamara de Lempicka

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Is the gift from a secret admirer from across the room or...does

she know him?... or are they strangers? Is he trying to win her over with

"The Gift" or is it an  apology? Lovers or Strangers? I'll leave it up to you.

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Inspired by Tamara de Lempicka

The woman in yellow, the man in blue, these are two new painting

of Tamara de Lempicka's that I have just come across and have

never seen before. I had the idea for this painting immediately.

I just imagined him looking at her from across the room and

wanted him to reflect in the mirror behind her so you could see

where her focus is. Of course I had to add some of Tamara's beautiful

Calli lilies from another of her paintings.

Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland.was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star."

In Paris, the Lempickas lived for a while from the sale of family jewels. Tadeusz proved unwilling or unable to find suitable work, which added to the domestic strain, while Maria gave birth to Kizette de Lempicka.

Her distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly (influenced by what Lhote sometimes referred to as "soft cubism" and by Denis'"synthetic cubism") and epitomized the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. For her, Picasso "embodied the novelty of destruction" She thought that many of the Impressionist drew badly and employed "dirty" colors. De Lempicka's technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant.De Lempicka continued both her heavy workload and her frenetic social life through the next decade.

The Great Depression had little effect on her; in the early 1930s she was painting King  Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Elizabeth of Greese. Museums began to collect her works. In 1933 she traveled to Chicago where she worked with  Georgia O'Keefe, Santiago Martinez Delgado and Willem de Kooningand. Her social position was cemented when she married her lover, Baron Kuffner, in 1933 (his wife had died the year before). The Baron took her out of her quasi-bohemian life and finally secured her place in high society again, with a title to boot. She repaid him by convincing him to sell many of his estates in Eastern Europe and move his money to Switzerland. She saw the coming of World War II from a long way off, much sooner than most of her contemporaries. She did make a few concessions to the changing times as the decade passed; her art featured a few refugees and common people, and even a Christian saint or two, as well as the usual aristocrats and cold nudes.

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Inspired by Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn's Spirit by k Madison Moore

Marilyn's Spirit

Inspired by Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe

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This is a similar painting commission to a previous

painting that I did " The Spirit of Marilyn".

I never do the same painting twice. However, I will do similar

paintings to those that have been sold.

Many times collectors see sold paintings that they love

and order commissions from them but I like to make each one

an original for the collectors.

In this one I changed the carpet and the print on the walls

and many other small changes. It looks so different and the

collectors is so happy.

If you see paintings that have been sold that you would

like to have as an original please contact me with your

ideas.  You can have any size and elements that you wish

or I can design one for you to your specifications.

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Her Ship in The Night, Matisse Inspired Painting by k Madison Moore

Her Ship in The Night

Inspired by Matisse

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The fun part of working with Matisse

is mixing patterns. He used so many

patterns and brilliant colors in one painting.

It can  get confusing at times.

I have used this Matisse model a few times.

I think it is one of my favorites because of

it's simplicity.

The table is set and the wine is poured

so I wonder who is on that ship?

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Matisse and His Models

The French expression for thunderbolt—coup de foudre—means “love at first sight,” with all the undertones of violence and risk that were an intrinsic part of Matisse’s passion for painting. Anxiety and dread hung over his studio sessions. Toward the end of his life he told an interviewer that each canvas began as a flirtation and ended up as a rape. He said it was himself, not his subject—or rather it was the feelings his subject aroused in him—that had to be raped. The subject itself could be fruit, flowers or a fabric screen, as often as a human sitter. The young women who posed for him all learned to live and work in the atmosphere of almost unbearable tension generated by Matisse’s effort to express his emotions on canvas—an effort that drained all his strength.

Matisse himself knew perfectly well that the erotic charge in his work came from a passionate desire that overrode straightforward lust. It was painting itself that seduced him over and over again with each fresh canvas. In old age when he was too weak to stand all day at the easel, he feared going blind as well “because of having flirted for too long . . . with these enchanted colors.”

All his life Matisse drove his models as well as himself to the limits of endurance. He insisted it was better to risk ruining a painting than be satisfied with a surface likeness. It’s always necessary to force your whole being beyond this stage, he told his daughter, Marguerite, because it’s only then that you start to make discoveries, and tear yourself apart in the process.

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The Max Collector, - Peter's Piano, Homage to Peter Max, by k Madison Moore

Peters' Piano - Homage to Peter Max

24 x 30 Oil painting on canvas
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I was thrilled to paint a similar Peter's Piano again but in a much

larger size this time. I did change a few details and colors to make this

one original. It was great fun seeing it all come together on a big canvas.

The collector that ordered this from me is a HUGE Peter Max Collector

and has a great website for all his Max collections. You might want to check

out his website if you are a Peter Max fan. www.themaxcollector.com

His wife is also an artist and makes very unusual big jewelry. Check her work

www.marziadesigns.com 

He liked this composition because it includes elements from four Peter Max

paintings. As soon as it dries and is framed it will be off to their beautiful home 
in Florida. Thanks so much for the commission Eddie.

If you see paintings that are already sold and would like a similar painted or

you have your own idea for a commission, please contact me with your ideas.

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Henri Rousseau Inspired Painting, Welcome To My Jungle by k Madison Moore

Welcome To My Jungle

Inspired by Henri Rousseau

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You cannot imagine how confusing this was to paint!

Sometimes I wonder why I must challenge myself so much.

I guess I have to prove I "can" do it! lol!

It really was fun to paint this and all of the patterns 

and yet still keep things separate so the patterns didn't blend

all together. Painting it on a much larger canvas 16 x 16

did help. The curtains are a little more gray than the bluish

tint you see here but just could not get  the correct lighting

but all in all is very close. Can you imagine walking into

a room and seeing him sitting there!

Enjoy!

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Henri Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. 

In 1893 Henri Rousseau took the chance to retire at the age of 49 on a small pension to realize his dream of becoming a full-time artist. Henri tried to supplement his pension by giving violin and painting lessons and by making portraits on commission. He earned some extra money as a street musician.

Rousseau was self-taught in every way. Even his painting technique was different. He painted the different colors one by one - first the blues and then the greens and so on - and he painted from top to bottom of the canvas.

Rousseau's work is characterized by heavy dependence on line, stiff (and unrealistic) portraiture, wild juxtapositions and flattened perspective from which the Cubists and Surrealists drew heavily. His imagination plays a major role in his work; Rousseau never personally set foot in a jungle. He did, though, spend considerable time viewing the plants and animals at Paris' Jardin des Plantes. It seems wrong to label his work as "primitive" without acknowledging the sense of wonder behind it.

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Picasso Inspired, Mother and Child by k Madison Moore

Mother and Child

Inspired by Pablo Picasso - Marie and Maya

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This painting took soooo long to complete!

I just kept adding more and more details, such fun!

It is so hard to keep all of Picasso's wives and lovers

straight. Here is my impression of Picasso's

Marie- Therese Walter  from one painting and their

daughter Maya from another. With all of my paintings

of his women I try to include a portrait of him.

He sure was some lover!

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I think the play on shapes and colors makes this

an interesting composition.

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Marie-Thérèse Walter (July 13, 1909 – October 20, 1977) was the French mistress and model of  Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935, and the mother of his daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and still living with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova . It ended when Picasso moved on to his next mistress, artist Dora Marrr.

In 1935, Marie became pregnant. When Picasso's wife, Olga, was informed by a friend that her husband had a longtime mistress who was expecting a child, she immediately left Picasso with their son Paulo and moved to the South of France. Picasso and Olga never divorced, because Picasso wanted to avoid the even division of property dictated by French law; instead, they lived separately until her death in 1955.
Picasso and Marie's daughter, María de la Concepción, called "Maya", was born on 5 September 1935.
In 1940, Marie and Maya moved to Paris, Boulevard Henri IV no 1, since the house at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre was occupied during World War II.
Picasso supported Marie and Maya financially, but he never married Marie.
On 20 October 1977, four years after Picasso's death, Marie-Thérèse committed suicide by hanging herself in the garage at Juan-les-Pins, South of France.
In 2004, Maya's son and Marie-Thérèse's grandson, Olivier Widmaier Picasso, published a biography of his famous grandfather titled Picasso: The Real Family Story.
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My Tiffany's, Inspired by Tiffany and Company Lamps, by k Madison Moore

My Tiffany's

Inspired by Tiffany and Company Lamps

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This paintings was so much more work than

I anticipated but I really like the way it turned out.

Tiffany Lamps are fascinating. There are so many

little pieces that make all he curves and designs of

the lamps. 

My friend was bog into stained glass. I was going

to get into it with her until I cut my first piece and my

finger along with it. That was my first and last try.

I'll stick with painting!

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A Tiffany Lamp is a type of lamp with many different types of glass shade. The most famous was the stained leaded glass lamp. Tiffany lamps are considered part of the Art Nouveau.

The first Tiffany lamp was created around 1895. Beautiful in design and intricacy, each lamp was handmade by skilled craftsmen, not mass or machine produced. Its designer was not, as had been thought for over 100 years, Louis Comfort Tiffany, but a previously unrecognized artist named Clara Driscoll was identified in 2007 by  Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg  as being the master designer behind the most creative and valuable leaded glass lamps produced.

The Tiffany craftsman used geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles, and ovals to form these patterns for these lamps. Next is the Transition to Flowers group, which is subdivided into the Flowered Cone and Globe lamps. All of these lamps follow a nature, or botanical, design using flowers, dragonflies, spiders with webs, butterflies, and peacock feathers. The difference within these two smaller categories is the difference in the lamp shapes, basically a cone and a globe by Tiffany Studios.

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