PATCHWORK PICTURES
Tony Huckleby instituted what has become an Eye Arts Guild tradition, and is currently Sally Procner's baby. A copy of an art work (usually by a well known artist, but the actual piece may not be easily identifiable) is cut up and distributed to the members in anonymous envelopes. They are not allowed to look in the envelope before making their choice!!
The members are then tasked with copying the tiny snippet of unknown image with their own paints on a section of watercolour paper provided in the envelope (with a certain amount of outline drawn on it to help). These are then pieced together and displayed at the Guild Christmas party. The skill displayed in these copies is remarkable, and generally the only reason for differences is because the medium used is not the same as the original.
The members are then tasked with copying the tiny snippet of unknown image with their own paints on a section of watercolour paper provided in the envelope (with a certain amount of outline drawn on it to help). These are then pieced together and displayed at the Guild Christmas party. The skill displayed in these copies is remarkable, and generally the only reason for differences is because the medium used is not the same as the original.
EAG version on the left, the original on the right. I am forced to 'Ask the Audience' for the identity of the painting at the top, as it was a subject some time before I joined. Anyone who knows, please let me know. (Hannah)
FOUR VAN GOGH FRUIT STILL LIFE PAINTINGS BECAME PATCHWORK PICTURES AT CHRISTMAS 2024
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This is the only year I have known where quite a few of the members guessed the artist simply from the strokes of his brush! |
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In the light of our Chairman’s Project for Christmas 2023, ‘Where on Earth are we Going?’, and the events of October and continuing in the Middle East, the pictures chosen for the Patchwork Pictures to be brought to the Christmas party of 2023 were the murals, War and Peace which are mounted (two stories high – 46 ft x 34 ft) on the east and west walls of the UN building in New York.
They were donated by Brazil, following a call in the early 1950s for all member states to present the United Nations with a work of art that represented their culture. The murals are placed outside the General Assembly Hall so that the delegates face War on their way into the building, and Peace as they leave. Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. You can read more about them here - www.un.org/ungifts/war-and-peace-war https://www.un.org/ungifts/war-and-peace-peace |
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THE CONFETTI OF THE CITY BY LEONID AFREMOV - PATCHWORK PICTURE FROM LOCKDOWN 2020
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DEATH AND THE MISER BY HIERONYMOUS BOSCH
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PARIS THROUGH A WINDOW BY MARC CHAGALL
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STILL LIFE AT A WINDOW BY VANESSA BELL
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MURNAU DORFSTRASSE BY WASSILY KANDINSKY
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MADAME MONET AND A CHILD IN THE GARDEN BY CLAUDE MONET