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

MISTER PITIFUL

yo!.. los angeles 3.. innit!

this image above is from psycho..

it's not marilyn..

it's Janet leigh..

apart from the appalling attack in the shower..

I have given her the warhol treatment..

to make her look like marilyn..

a soup can marilyn..

like pop art..

innit!

ICONOCLASM

the destruction of icons..

that famous and beautiful face..

has had some art worked on it..

I am sorry for my part in this now..

at the time I was only thinking of myself..

and my little screen print..

so here you can see..

my cunning plan..

one print with  the image on both sides and with cut out and folded flaps..

with the second print beneath it..

clever innit!

I SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU

andy had given her the soup can treatment..

pile em high and sell em cheap..

mass reproduction..

just like elvis or the mona lisa..

15 minutes of lame..

on reflection..

I feel now that this was..

a poor show..

in 'marilyn reframed'

we are introduced to a great person..

the greatest photographer's model of all time..

she ran the whole show..

she had all the guts they ever made..

possibly the most famous face in the world..

and a great actress..

I was ten when she died..

she was the most beautiful woman in the world..

you can spend a long time in Hollywood..

and never see the part they put in movies..

farewell my lovely..

VARIATIONS ON A SCREAM

 

 

following on from yesterday..

more variations..

 

 

 

click on any image to enlarge..

for another movie click here

THE SCREAM

this is my take on 'the scream' by edvard munch.. and this limited edition print was created in 1980..

 

it has two sheets of arches hand made paper..

 

top sheet printed on both sides.

 

with the 1950's ad for vim..

 

the second sheet underneath..

 

is from psycho..

 

ICONOCLASM

click on any image to enlarge

 

so this is janet leigh on the shower floor.. 

 

 

 

in 'psycho' by alfred hitchcock.. 

 

 

I had a screen made from the still..

 

 

and worked on the screen prints with inks and..

 

 

 paint stripper..

 

 

 

and then worked on the reverse side..

 

 

cut out flaps and folded them over..

 

 

 

there is more to see of course..

 

and more to tell..

 

 FORTY YEARS ON

 

 see my movie of this..