I enjoy reviewing past art as much as anyone else, and a few times the work has inspired me to try another composition based upon the earlier presentation. Here, I took a couple figures from Botticelli's Primavera and placed them in a picture about spring cleaning, Asymmetry of the Spring, wherein there is an encounter with a spider.
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A few people have remarked that my style tends to a surrealist outlook or even a humorous one. While that may be the case, my point is to show how one may vary an original composition to gain another effect. Granted, large schematic drawings of spiders are not everyone's favorite subject, but the Botticelli figures themselves appeared well-suited for their function in this drawing.
Similarly, I went ahead with the same outlook for the drawing Yield of the Fall, using figures from a Durer print.
An environmental and agricultural lesson did not seem out-of-place here, and I like to think that an artist as Durer, who enjoyed painting flora and fauna, would have agreed. As with the Spring drawing, this varies the composition a bit though not as much. It's fairly faithful to the Durer original except for the absence of some plants and critters. Again, the tone is decidedly different from the original; whether for the good or for the ill depends upon artistic taste.
