I made this reinterpretation as a digital self-portrait of the Fauvist portrait of Henri Matisse, painted in 1905 by his friend André Derain.
It is, of course, quite conceited to put yourself in the same league as Matisse and Derain. I would never dare to do that, but I did try to 'digitize' their ideas from a century ago.
I largely followed the color palette of the original, but translated the fauvist brushstrokes into a digital geometric tessellation. And I replaced Matisse's face with mine - very vain!
I few years ago, I've started this work with a just a small reproduction of the original painting in an art book and a mirror. This way I created a self-portrait in acrylic paint, in the same color palet and similar style as the original. But with my own face (including Matisse's pipe).
I wasn't particularly content with the painting itself - but hey, I'm just a student! And it resembles me, so that's something.
And you don't need a perfect painting to create an interesting work of art. What I did next recently, was reworking a picture of the original painting into a vector illustration. I applied several layers and recreated the painting as a digital geometric tessellation. To give the digital work some interesting textures, I also mixed in some of the original painting work.
For comparison: the original painting is at the TATE in London; here's a link to view it on their site (I can't include it here, because of copyrights...).
Original by Derain: 46 x 35 cm, oil on canvas.
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