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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Romancing Monet by k Madison Moore, Claude Monet Inspired Painting

 Romancing Monet 
©kMadisonMooreMkM2011


12 x 16 Oil Painting on Canvas 

Art within Art Series 
Sold - Commission

This painting is similar to another that I painted 
last year. I changed many things in this one to make it
 my collectors original. In this composition I used a
different piano, candelabra, couple, flowers, floor and the
two paintings on the wall. Most of the rest is very similar.

If you see paintings that you like in My Portfolio that
have been Sold I would be happy to paint a similar for you
in any size you wish. Each painting is it's "own original".

Here is a link to the first painting
so you can see the changes.

I can change elements and add things that you would
like in your original or we can design one just for you.
Do you have a favorite room in your house or do 
you have a dream room with all your favorite
things, colors patterns and art? Would you like to
see that in a painting?

Original paintings make great gifts for someone
special, or even you! Email Me with your
ideas
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926) is a famous French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement along with his friends Renoir, Sisley and Bazille.

Monet rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been learning from his friends and the nature itself. Monet observed variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes.

Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte,in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise-Justine Aubree. On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He became known locally for this charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he meet fellow artist Eugéne Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.

Read More Here at The Complete Works Of Monet

The Power of Picasso by k Madison Moore

The Power of Picasso
©kMadisonMooreMkM2011

16 x 20 Oil Painting on Canvas

Sold Commission

Art within Art Series

This was a fun painting. My collector's hubby loves
Picasso and she loves spirals.  This is a good
combination of what they both love.
It was interesting to design and paint the
carpet and I think it added a lot of interest
to the black and white exhibit.

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Romancing Picasso, Inspired by Pablo Picasso by k Madison Moore


Romancing Picasso

©kMadisonMooreMkM

11 x 14 inches Oil on Canvas
(click to view details)


SOLD - Thank you Pam


Art within Art Series

I was in the mood to "attack" color and details so here it is.  This painting was so much fun.
The more colors I can use in one painting the happier I am. Doing the grid in the background
was intense but I enjoyed every minute of it.
Hey, where did the couple go?

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Eye on Magritte, Inspired my Rene Magritte, bu k Madison Moore

An Eye on Magritte
©kMadisonMooreMkM

11 x 14 inches Oil on Canvas

Art within Art Series
SOLD

Margritte is such a nut! He is so much fun to paint with. I always findsomething new 
when I work with him. I found this painting of
"Magritte's Room" and just knew it was perfect for this composition,
of course with my changes and additions.Here's a photo so you can see
 how his painting inspired  "An Eye on Magritte."
All of the painting on the wall are Magritte, as well as the  "Eye"
that I used for the flooring, the Bird painted like clouds, the
crazy piano, The scene in the window and the Pipe Painting on the easel.
He loved those hats and his pipe so I did a play on them as well.
Enjoy!





René François Ghislain Magritten ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,

Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple.
Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.

Magritte's use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery. He described the act of painting as "the art of putting colors side by side in such a way that their real aspect is effaced, so that familiar objects—the sky, people, trees, mountains, furniture, the stars, solid structures, graffiti—become united in a single poetically disciplined image. The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.

More About Magritte
Magritte's Site
Paintings by Magritte

Monday, November 14, 2011

Puzzled with Matisse by k Madison Moore Pennsylvania Artist


Puzzled with Matisse
Inspired by Henri Matisse

©kMadisonMoore 2011

11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas
( click the image for details)

Painting with The Masters
Art within Art Series


I remain always fascinated with Matisse, his colors and his textiles.
He used so many brilliant colors together and a lot of red!
Always makes me happy!


The pattern on the wall is one of Matisse's textiles.
My impression of part of one of his paintings hangs over the fireplace.
The window view is from another, as well as the plants on the table 
and in the window.  The sofa is my idea of what maybe Mr Matisse
would like to have in his parlor.....hum...?

While I was researching his use of combining several
different patterns in his paintings, the word puzzles came to mind.
I think that I was wondering if his use of all those patterns in one
composition ever puzzles people??? Therefor the inspiration
for "Puzzled with Matisse"  was born. Silly, I know, but true!
I never get tired of paintings with him

Enjoy!



Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was born in the north-eastern industrial French town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, the son and grandson of weavers. His childhood was spent in Bohain-en-Vermandois before he ran away to Paris in 1891. The area of Bohain had produced textiles since medieval times and the economic recovery following the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871) led to a burgeoning industry for luxury fabrics, supplied to Paris couturiers: 'The weavers of Bohain were celebrated for their bold experimentation. The luxury textile industry in Bohain declined throughout the 20th century and eventually disappeared … the sumptuous fabrics, ranging from the complex and floral motifs of the 1880s to the more geometric and abstract patterns of the 1890s.'2 The grim, industrial environment of northern France held no interest for Matisse who described the first two decades of his life as having been spent in prison. He later discovered the colour and light of the Mediterranean, where he spent most of his prolific career. However, the dominance of colour in the form of the marvellous and varied fabrics that surrounded Matisse in childhood, and which he collected from an early age, were significant.

John Berger, however, captured the essence of Matisses powers: 'He clashed his colours together like cymbals, and the effect was like a lullaby.

Read More of this Great Article about Matisse and his Textiles Here 

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Melody For The Kiss, "Inspired by Gustav Klimt," by k Madison Moore

Melody for The Kiss

©kMadisonMooreMkM2011
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SOLD





    •    11 x 14 inches
    •    Oil painting on Canvas
    •    Art within Art Series

  •      I always enjoy painting with Klimt but there are sooo many details. They just go on and on.
         I have done  "The Kiss by Klimt" so many times and never get tired of it as it is my favorite
         his.  I already did a Klimt with a harp but it was so popular I thought I would try another.
         The Harpist  and the flooring is from two more Klimt paintings.

         I used a lot of Metallics in this one just as Klimt did in many of his paintings.
         It is very hard to capture metallic's with a camera. I used 3 shades of red and over layed
         them as glazes along with deep gold, siennas, blacks, blues, gree and whites. Enjoy!


  •    Inspired by Gustav Klimt
           
       The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt, b. July 14, 1862, d. Feb. 6, 1918,  founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession, embodies the high-keyed erotic, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling intellectual world.

He has been called the preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU. Klimt began (1883) as an artist-decorator in association with his brother and Franz Matsoh. In 1886-92, Klimt executed mural decorations for staircases at the Burg theater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; these confirmed Klimt's eclecticism and broadened his range of historical references. Klimt was a co-founder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, a group of modernist architects and artists who organized their own exhibition society and gave rise to the SECESSION MOVEMENT, or the Viennese version of Art Nouveau. He was also a frequent contributor to Ver Sacrum, the group's journal. The primal forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death form the dominant themes of Klimt's work. His paintings of femme fatales
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/klimt/

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Happy Vetrans Day

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

My Poiret by k Madison Moore

by k Madison Moore
My Poiret

Influenced by Paul Poiret

©kMadisonMooreMkM2011

14 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

Art within Art Series
Sold


Paul Poiret is an artist that we do not see mentioned
much, at least where I have been. Since I have 
always loved fashion design and did design for fashion
in my younger years I admire many of the old designers.
Poiret was from 1979 - 1944 but I love his fashions and 
illustrations.

 In this painting I hung one of Poiret's paintings in the back
ground but wanted to design my own fashion. Of 
course I had to add the big hat. I think I love them
because I can't wear them. I love the way the tow women 
are in such deep thought...hummm?
Enjoy!








Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France – 30 April 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso's contributions to twentieth-century art.
Paul Poiret,  (born April 20, 1879, Paris, France—died April 30, 1944, Paris), French couturier, the most fashionable dress designer of pre-World War I Paris. Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere, and for the introduction of the  hobbie skirt, a vertical, tight-bottomed style that confined women to mincing steps. “I freed the bust,” boasted Poiret, “and I shackled the legs.”
After serving as a designer in the house of Parisian Fashion designer Charles Fredric Worth, Poiret opened a small shop in Paris in 1903. By 1907 he had been instrumental in reviving the Empire style, popular in France during the reign of  Napoleon. Inspired by a widespread interest in Eastern art and Russian Ballet, he created flamboyant, theatrical designs. His evening gowns, turbans, and harem pants appeared in brilliant shades of purple, red, orange, green, and blue. He was extremely influential in the pre-World War I period, but his popularity waned in the 1920s.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Lonely Heart, Inspired by Alphonse Mucha Painting by k Madison Moore

Lonely Heart
Inspired by Alpons Mucha

©kMadisonMooreMkM2011

11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

Painting with The Masters
Art within Art Series
SOLD

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Every once in awhile I have to do a more
realistic type painting in more suttle
colors than my usual brilliant colors.
I have always loved Mucha and admire
his talent and the beautiful women he 
painted.
She looks like she is so lonely
sitting there looking out the window.
Is she? What is she thinking about?
Maybe she is waiting for Alphonse?

Enjoy!




Alphonse Mucha

1878
Mucha applies to the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. His application is turned down with the recommendation: "Find yourself another profession where you'll be more useful".

1879
Goes to Vienna to work as a scene painter for the firm of Kautsky-Brioschi-Burghardt.

1881
Leaves Vienna when the Ringtheater, his employer's best customer, burns down in a fire in which 500 people died. Mucha, as the youngest employee, receives his notice. Goes to Mikulov where he earns a living by painting portraits. Meets Count Khuen Belasi who commissions him to decorate his castle at Emmahof.

1883
Moves to Castle Gandegg, Tyrol, where Count Khuen's brother, an amateur artist, becomes Mucha's patron.

1885
Begins studies at the Munich Academy of Art, sponsored by Count Khuen's brother.

1887
Moves to Paris to study at the Academie Julian, still under the Count's sponsorship.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Alphonse Mucha Wine Label Painting, by k Madison Moore

Alphonse Mucha Wine Label 
©kMadisonMooreMlkM2011

9 x 12 Oil Painting on Canvas

Connoisseur Wine Masters Series

Sold  - Commission

Original oil paintings make great  gifts
for the holidays. Contact me for your holiday
commissions.




Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Secret Hat Society, Art Deco Painting Inspired my Tamara de Lempicka by k Madison Moore


Secret Hat Society
Inspired by Tamara de Lempicka
©kMadisonMooeMkM2011

11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

SOLD

Painting with The Masters
Art within Art Series'


Love, love Big Hats!
Tamara loved them too!
She painted many of her models
with high fashioned hats. I guess because
she was so involved in the fashion world
and Holywood. She painted many of the stars
of her time.
This is a short post as I am totally
burnt out from all the recent surgeries
and trying to get caught up on things.

Enjoy!


Tamara Lempicka is best known for her Art Deco-styled portraits. Sexy, bedroom-eyed women in stylish dress are rendered in haunting poses. Perhaps it was her own dramatic life mirrored in her art. Married twice to wealthy, she moved from her native Poland to Russia, and then to Paris. In 1918, she studied painting at the Academe de la Grand Chaumiere, and was privately tutored by Maurice Denis. In 1925 she exhibited her works at the first Art Deco show in Paris. She moved to America in 1939 with her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner.

Read more on Tamara Here