ווייַנטרויב ווערייישאַנז
Grape Variations or Grape Enigmas
or Some Musings on Current Currents
28×24
Oil on linen
Painting Notes:
This started as a central still life of grapes on a plate surrounded by other grape renditions, but I got bored with that and it took on a different direction. Somewhere along the way, when I had time invested in it, I found in the morning a large tear of unknown origin. I mended it with alkyd impasto medium and soldiered on. I always wear at least 2x binocular magnifiers. The footnotes provide scholarly gravitas. I vow to keep better records of my research, think I do, but when I get to typing my footnotes invariably there are lacunae. Who cares?
1/ Peter Bruegel: Dulle Griet, 1563.
2/ Charles Atlas
3/ Lucas Cranach: The Fountain of Youth, 1546.
4/ John Waters and Edith Massey.
5/ Electrolux 1941, Peanut Crunch 1946, Masonite 1946, Mamie van Doren: Born Reckless, 1958.
6/ Picasso: Lysistrata, 1934.
7/ Egon Schiele: Frau mit Schwarzen Strümpfen, 1913.
8/ Picasso: The Dream and Lie of Franco, 1937.
9/ Ralph Meeker and Gaby Rodgers: Kiss Me Deadly, 1955.
10/ Robert Rauschenberg: Lincoln, 1958.
11/ Henry James
12/ John Everett Millais: Ophelia. 1851-2.
13/ Augustus Egg: Past and Present #1, 1858.
14/ Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-5.
15/ Fremont Parade.
16/ Helen Mirren: Calendar Girls, 2003.
17/ R. Crumb, n.t., n.d.
18/ William Holman Hunt: The Awakening Conscience, 1853-4.
19/ Egon Schiele: Stehende Frau in Rot, 1913.
20/ John Tenniel: Alice and the Red Queen, 1865.
21/ Man Ray: Le Violin d’Ingres, 1924.
22/ Rita Hayworth: Gilda, 1945.
23/ Man Ray: Cine-Sketch, Adam and Eve, 1924.
24/ Tales from the Crypt .
25/ Paul Celan.
26/ Elsa Lanchester: The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935; Man Ray: Portmanteau, 1920/72.
27/ Robert Rauschenberg: Skyway, 1964.
28/ A. Warhol: Henry Geldzahler, 1979.
29/ Victor Mature, Linda Darnell: My Darling Clementine, 1946.
30/ John Gilbert and Renee Adoree: The Big Parade, 1925.
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32/ E. J. Bellocq, n.t., n.d.
33/ Emily Dickinson
34/ Kim Novak: Vertigo, 1958.
35/ Francesca Woodman, n.t., n.d.
36/ Roy Lichtenstein: Still Life with Silver Pitcher, 1972.
37/ Boris Karloff: Bride of Frankenstein, 1935.
38/ Saul Bass:Vertigo, 1958.
39/ Ethel Rosenberg.
40/ Boris Karloff: Frankenstein, 1931.
41/ Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn.
42/ Piero della Francesca: Madonna of Senigallia, 1470-85.
43/ Rudolf Dischinger: Grammophon, 1930.
44/ Charles Dana Gibson, n.t., n.d.
45/ James Stewart. Donna Reed: It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946.
46/ E. J. Bellocq, n.t., n.d.
47/ Die Weintraub Syncopator: Der Blaue Engel, 1930.
48/ Chesterfield, 1940.
49/ Gustav Klimt: Reclining Seminude, ca. 1914.
50/ Man Ray: Indestructible Object, 1923/63.
51/ Charles Ives
52/ Hanna Nagel: Halbanke Frau von Druckerpresse, 1929.
53/ Bette Davis: The Letter, 1940.
54/ Ethel Rosenberg.
55/ Jean-Luc Godard leading lady, lost her name.
56/ A. Warhol: Big Electric Chair, 1967.
57/ David Hockney: Looking at Pictures on a Screen, 1977.
58/ Roy Lichtenstein: Brush Stroke.
59/ Marcel Duchamp: Roue de bicyclette, 1913/64.
60/ Marlene Dietrich: Der Blaue Engel, 1930
61/ George Grosz: Beauty I shall Praise Thee, n.d.
62/ Janet Leigh: Psycho, 1960.
63/ Man Ray: Self-Portrait, 1932.
64/ Helen Mirren: Calendar Girls, 2003
65/ Man Ray: Self-Portrait with Camera, 1930.
66/ Man Ray: L’engime d’Isidore Ducasse, 1920.
67/ Kodak, 1949.
68/ Ileana Sonnabend, 1960s.
69/ David Greenglass.
70/ Roy Licntenstein: Sunrise, 1984.
71/ Julius Rosenberg.
72/ Alien, 1980 [pace Christopher Wool.]
73/ Elsa Lanchester: The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935; Man Ray: Portmanteau, 1920/72.
74/ Ray King: New York Nights,1934.
75/ Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, 1975.
76/ The Long Goodbye, 1973.
77/ Corinne Marchand: Cleo de 5 a 7, 1962.
78/ George Grosz: Suburb, 1920.
79/ Ernest Chausson.
80/ August Sander: National Socialists Cologne Train Station, 1937.
81/ Greyhound, 1948.
82/ Otto Dix: Two Victims of Capitalism, 1923.
83/ Mathew Brady: Casualties of Battle, Antietam, 1862.
84/ Gustav Klimt: Seminude, 1913.
85/
86/ Pacific Sheets, 1945.
87/ Jayne Mansfield meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1955 + Kiss Me Deadly ad.
88/ Chardin: The Attributes of the Arts and Their Rewards, 1766.
89/ German Hyperinflation, 1922.
90/ Francesca Woodman, n.t. n.d.
91/ Kim Novak.
92/ E. J. Bellocq, n.t., n.d.
93/ Tales from the Crypt #6.
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95/ L’Amour 1902.
96/ Vasily Kandinsky: Red and Blue, 1913.
97/ Peter Brocco: The Balcony, 1963.
98/ German Hyperinflation.
99/ Jean-Leon Gerome: The Christian Martyr’s Last Prayer, 1863-83.
100/ Doug Snerd, n.t. 2007.
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102/ Alphonse de Neuville: The Attack at Dawn, 1877.
103/ Christian Schad: Zwei Freundinnen, 1928.
104/ Jean-Leon Gerome: A Roman Slave Market, 1884.
105/ Augustus Egg: Past and Present #1, 1858.
106/ Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang, 1930s.
107/ Giulietta Masina: Giulietta degli spiriti, 1965.
108/ Schenley Thanksgiving, 1942.
109/ Tartan Suntan Lotion, 1947.