THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 22 : Limited Edition

It's 1985..

and our artist is selling limited edition screen prints..

Madonna De Milo

he has sold one of these to Manchester City Art Gallery..

for their loan scheme..

Take Five..

He has sold several of these..

there are three layers..

yellow on the bottom..

the second layer is printed on both sides..

green on the front and pink on the back..

stars are cut out on all but one side..

then they are folded back to reveal the bottom layer..

on the top layer is a black halftone screen of..

the famous still from..

the seven year itch..

The Scream..

here you can see the cut outs working more clearly..

this shape inspired by ..

Ellsworth Kelly..

all but one of these went..

positive and negative palm..

a best selling print..

edition of 50..

still got a few but most sold..

the truth really..

is that his wife Virgina Stuart..

has made the appointments with the loan schemes..

and it is she who sold them there..

one of the artist's concepts..

was 'iconoclasm' ..

Janet Leigh gets the Warhol treatment..

straight from the shower..

then the cutting started..

then the folding back..

it was intended to be one of the layers..

for 'the scream'..

but this works better..

what do you think..

ICONOCLASM

the 'Pscho' prints were surplus to requirements..

once the decision not to use them for 'the scream'..

was made..

so the artist attacked them with paint stripper, white spirit and boot polish,,

you can imagine the frenzied attack..

a whole garage covered in paint stripper..

a destroyed icon..

smudged make up..

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/the+scream

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/flaps

https://charles-stuart.pixels.com/collections/east+100th+street

THE MADONNA DE MILO

 

flipping through an old 1950's magazine..

I came across this advert for a milky bedtime drink..

Milo..

mother and very healthy child..

one of the great images of western art..

great art as pop art..

madonna and child..

on the tv..

selling stuff..

guess all the kids these days think..

that's not madonna..

and anyway..

which kid is that supposed ta be anyway..?

tv's were smaller then..

and funny shaped..

'the madonna de milo'..

 is a limited edition screen print on arches paper..

1986..

edition of 25

VARIATIONS ON A SCREAM

 

 

following on from yesterday..

more variations..

 

 

 

click on any image to enlarge..

for another movie click here

MORE ON FLAPS

yo!.. interactive... innit! 

so..

as promised..

here are a few more..

blasts from the past..

TAKE FIVE

I was showing my stuff around some..

london galleries in the 1980's

 

and francis kyle took two of these and sold them..

the photo from 'the seven year itch' set..

is printed in flourescent half tone..

 

cut in to with star shaped flaps..

which are folded back and underlaid by a 2nd print..

and then overlaid with a black halftone of the same image..

neat huh?

WOMEN WASHING

happy with his first punt..

francis asked me to submit a work..

inspired by 'women washing'

I was exited and set about creating..

a flap piece to fit the challenge..

I of course..

failed to ascertain his true idea..

which was more bonnard then warhol..

so anyway my work was not included in the exhibition..

 "In 1980 Stone was a contributor to the Gallery's theme exhibition, Women Washing and seven years later he participated in Now, Fair River..."

here is my version of women washing..

  

so - flaps r us... innit!

I guess i'm just a wheel re-inventor..

a wrong end of the stick kind of guy..

or perhaps I just think different..

MORE ON FLAPS

- ICONOCLASM -

I felt that this frame from psycho..

janet leigh in the shower tray..

could use a flap over..

so I created these..

 

visit gallery here 

COMING UP

king elvis has surely come..

the fruit machine stops..

more on east 100st..