Because the lecture theatre was in darkness was unable to take notes but Maureen kindly sent me some notes as an aide memoire.
The talk was called "Art on Art" and the main premise was that artists have always used the work of other artists as inspiration. Dr Ille gave many examples so here are just a few.
Manet's "Dejeuner sur L'Herbe" is derived from a detail of Raphael's "Judgement of Paris". Manet only knew the work from an engraving as the original Raphael is lost.
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| Engraving of Raphael's Judgement of Paris www.backtoclassics.com |
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| Detail from the above engraving |
Manet used the image of the three seated figures in the bottom right corner for his painting:
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| Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe 1863http://www.everypainterpaintshimself.com |
Amazingly this was reinterpreted as a screen print by Alain Jacquet in 1964. It is a 6 foot diptych and it reminds me of Seurat and Pointillism.
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| Dejeuner sur L'Herbe, Alain Jacquet, 1964 www.drouot.com |
And Picasso had a try as well.
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Picasso's version of Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe
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There are many more; some are sculptures where of course you can walk all around the work instead of just looking at from the front:
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Manet: Dejeuner sur LHerbe, John De Andrea 1982
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| Las Maninas, Velazquez, 1656/7 www.mystudios.com |
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Las Meninas, Picasso, 1957
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and a more colourful one
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| Las Meninas, Picasso, 1957 www.wikipaintings.org |
We heard about parodies of famous nudes - the speciality of Mel Ramos:
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| Olympia by Manet - 1863 commons.wikimedia.org |
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| Manet's Olympia by Mel Ramos, 1974 http://rogallery.com |
This was a very interesting evening and I'm grateful to Maureen for her help after the event.
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