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Drawing, Ink on Paper
Size: 12 W x 16 H x 0.1 D in
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This is a Zen chicken homage to Picasso's many drawings of figures and their simple yet expressive eyes. As an educator I am familiar with an art game called Do it yourself Picasso Portraits. I also recently collected the out of print book, Goodbye Picasso by David Douglas Duncan. These are not direct copies of Picasso's eye drawings, but reflective reactions to the images in the book - an inky way of taking visual notes and turning the notes into a Zen Chicken. The front cover of Goodbye Picasso features Picasso's eyes looking through a cut out mask of an owl head. My students are confused by Picasso until they create a Picasso reference without knowing it. Then I am able to contextualize their "mistake" into an improv art history lesson about creative directions other than video game realism. The why of my Zen chicken flock is art history. I am inspired by the avant garde of various eras, collage, asemic writing, and cave art. In my creative process unexpected, unexplained contrasts are positioned as harmonies. The drawing measures 12 x 16 inches done in India ink on watercolor board. Canson Plein Air Watercolor Artboards are rigid, acid-free, 2 ply (1.5 mm) boards that have been laminated to 129 lb (190 gsm) cold press Canson paper. The drawing is signed by the artist with a vermilion and white signature chop on the front, and with full name and date on the back. Ships mounted in an archival mat ready to pop into a 16 x 20 inch frame style of your choice.
Drawing:Ink on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12 W x 16 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Honoria Starbuck (Miami, Florida) grew up on Key Biscayne, an island off the coast of Miami. She studied art and art history at the University of Texas and holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Fine Arts, Communications, and Education. Honoria is influenced by art history stretching back to cave art. The zen chicken series is specifically influenced by expressive calligraphic artists and the asemic writing movement. Zen chickens also stem from the abstraction of Ikebana, the flowing flowers of Emile Nolde, the frottage of Max Ernst, the eye of Man Ray and Dada, the diffusion of ink by George Grosz, as well as current events. In addition, Honoria’s artwork is a form of moving meditation closely related to her 14-year practice of tai chi. Honoria has decades of diverse experiences as a Mail Artist in the international Correspondence Art Network through which her work has been exhibited in over 400 exhibitions including twice in the Venice Biennale. Honoria has also worked in Internet art creating the first Internet opera (1995) which was recognized by the Global Bangemann Challenge for innovation. Honoria’s theme is flow. Flow connects the molecules of pigment into patterns on the paper and intellectual themes flow from one individual artwork into the next. The Zen Chicken theme has a strong current of humor and flexibility as the dilettante rooster roams through a wide range of entanglements from Japanese flower arranging to modern art. Honoria is a professor of practice in the Art and Entertainment Technology Department in the College of Fine Art at The University of Texas at Austin.
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