Below is my version of Pablo Picasso's famous painting Les Demoiselles, created out of a 'dirty' fluid pour from obscure shapes "hidden" in the art piece far right (bottom left-hand corner). They appeared as 5 vague ghostly feminine figures along with the profile of Pablo leering over the shoulder of the most prominent female with her back to the viewer. Although I could clearly see the shapes, it was the 'trained eye' of a talented artist observing my work on an American website that made the reference to Pablo's work. I just brought them to life!
Experimenting with fluid pour using colours of the sea where I was staying at the time close to the Indian ocean in Alkimos, Perth. It is a large canvas with many hidden forms and shapes that at some point in the future I will work on, define the many gems waiting for me tobring to life and create my own "master piece".
I could not believe my eyes when I first saw the shapes but didn't really know what I was looking at until the reference to Picasso's famous painting was pointed out to me. I knew Picasso was a famous artist but wasn't familiar with his work so did my own research and "voila" the connection was made and my version was born! To reproduce my painting was a process in itself, photographing the figures, redefining the shapes without trying to copy Picasso's work too closely and printing it onto a block frame. Love the end result. Fluid pour or dirty pour, is literally dirty work because it is pouring lots of paint onto canvas which produces some very surreal shapes, figures and forms in the finished art piece. Some shapes reveal themselves straight away while others take awhile to emerge...doesn't always happen but when it does, as in this case, it is a huge buzz! I plan to take my version and paint an enlarged copy of it...one of these days...