Georgia O'Keeffe
1926
Oil on canvas
Georgia said she saw the sun taking a bite out of the backlit Shelton building. I suppose the orange sun spots could be crumbs, or dribble from the sun's feasting. Dribble would explain why it is the spitting image of how I imagine fun, flattened, cartoony 1920s aesthetic. My sunspot (lower right) came out green because the sun - who is even slower than the Boosh moon - found out it was not the centre of the universe that day.
Woman Descending the Staircase
Gerhard Richter
1965
Oil on canvas
Richter's 'photo painting' is a nice play on Marcel Duchamp's Nu descendant un escalier n° 2 (a nude descending a staircase no. 2) below. Opening the shutter long enough to capture movement through blurring, and then transcribing this blurring into the painting is a kind of cubism - adding a fourth dimensionality (or third if you count height, width and time but not depth). I've added an additional dimension to Richter's by changing and layering the angles one could view the (flat) image from.
Oneupmanshiperized!
Nu descendant un escalier n° 2
Marcel Duchamp
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