'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
Some of my Loyal Readers may remember my adventure with the found art (March 29, 2006). The latest development:
'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'
Bill Pocock, 2006
I think the brushwork helps to bring out the residual knife stabs rather well.
- I gave the female nude a glass coat and will hang it in my swinging bachelor pad soon enough.
- The other painting of a girl/doll I call 'Baby Jane' has become...
'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'Bill Pocock, 2006
I think the brushwork helps to bring out the residual knife stabs rather well.
posted by Bill Pocock at 10:33:00 a.m.
7 Comments:
Brilliant Bill. I love it. Can't tell from the picture but are there any remnants of Baby Jane at all?
It's a thin coat of the cheapest interior semi-gloss I could find. I hope that the image underneath bleeds through the white over time or peels off. Either way it would be a Edgar Allen Poe thing with me slowly going mad, racked with guilt. A sorta combo between the story where a guy brinks in his living 'best friend' behind a wall and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. Me secretly fearful that people looking at it can see the upside down 'Baby Jane' underneath.
I'm not sure if the knife stabs were part of the original concept for the painting or happened later as a final act before throwing it into the street. I suspect the latter. I get the feeling the painting is cursed and only brings misfortune to the possessor.
Um, now to answer your question, there's only a little red from the old couch.
You're right, it's definately not a studio quality shot. But is it gothic? Just a little?....
Remember going to see that ancient, red-shifted film about the modern painters at the Bloor cinema? There was that one guy who erased a sketch by...I think De Koening (sp)...the great part was, they spent time together picking the right one to erase!
I think you could start a craze buying art, painting over it, then reselling it - shades of that dude who threw the coins off the bridge!
You continue a rich tradition,sir...
Hey, that's a great idea, painting over other paintings....
I might do that. Buy low, sell high, right?
I actually bought a Martin Budny (www.martinbudny.com) painting which he had just painted over red (now in John Kim's private collection). Told him to stop because I thought it was done. I ran off to get the money from the bank after ordering him to sign and date it, then step away from the painting. It was the coolest thing to see parts of the old painting come through. Thing was, the painting underneath was really awesome in addition to the red all over it. I really miss that painting. John Kim said he really liked it when I showed it to him. So, I gave it to him. Naw, I did the right thing. Nobody really owns art, I guess....
Paint every one of them over in my Peacock Blue. Just different sizes, names and (of course) provenence.
I hear it took Klein like 7-8 years before they stopped laughing at his Klein Blue and started buy like Walmart Midnight Madness.
I need to use a french nude model, cover her in Peacock Blue paint and drag her by the hands (or get another nude model to do the dragging) all over the old canvases to make new ones (in my Klein homage series).
'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' will stay as it is as an artifact of this idea you've given me, Rob. No other poor quality painting (as my legal property) shall be safe within my clutches!
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