Winston Spencer Churchill: a study in (spot)light, colour and history.
This is my very first contribution on Bitchute. It is a first and a test in many ways. So please bear and bare with me.
ABOUT THE PAINTING ITSELF
At first, actually this oilpain…
Winston Spencer Churchill: a study in (spot)light, colour and history.
This is my very first contribution on Bitchute. It is a first and a test in many ways. So please bear and bare with me.
ABOUT THE PAINTING ITSELF
At first, actually this oilpainting was meant to be just a final preliminary for the real tribute to the greatest Briton who ever lived, focusing on getting acquinted further with the characteristic features of his face and on the skincolour(s) I should apply.
As references I used three black and white photos and two paintings: for the face left below and in the centre. Clockwise, ending in the middle, Sir Winston was in the second, third, seventh, eighths and (very start of) nineth decade of his life.
The face in the centre is based on a painting by the famous Graham Sutherland: his ínfamous painting. The old man himself disliked it very much. So much so, that his wife later destroyed the original. Note that the British parliament paid the artist a fee that today would be worth around 100000 US dollars and the great man himself could be persuaded to unveil it on which occasion he gave a very special 'compliment': "a remarkable example of modern art".
Sutherland indeed had depicted Churchill not only as an old man, but as sad and vulnerable too. In my painting I have tried to change it in a way that honours both Sutherland and Churchill a bit more. Especially the body language is very different.
WHY WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL?
In many respects I am very, very different from him, but there are some similarities too. The least of those is that he painted too (On his 89 impressionist paintings very few people are depicted). He definitely was kind of a loner and he called himself sentimental. I like to see myself as 'Merciless Yet Empatic'. The most striking similarity is that reaching 65 years of age most certainly to neither of us meant: giving up.
BTW, I consider him as the greatest statesman who ever lived. Period.
The show I hope to start early 2022, will contain a 'category' –named WDWD– that has this painting as a standard image.
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
I am not just another Old Dutch Painter: I already claimed the domain name OldDutchPainter.works !
And on the other hand: painting is not my main occupation. I write and wrote quite a lot. Many essays (Most in Dutch; Some of my texts in English can be found here: https://independent.academia.edu/FransGroenendijk/English) on the internet, several books in both Dutch and English.
On OldDutchPainter.works for now (November 30 '21) is nothing to see yet.
My best friend (my brother) and my second best friend already promised to support me on my new initiatives.
