Ellen Marcus

Category: pastiche

  • Fish With Watering Can

    Acrylic on Canvas –  11″x14″

    This painting sold within two days of putting her on display.  I’ve been considering jacking up my prices, so you might want to hurry and grab one soon.

    This particular painting is a pastiche of Renoir’s “Girl With Watering Can”.  I think the inspiration to do a Renoir came from my visit to the Barnes museum, where there are tons of blurry Renoirs all over the walls.

    I don’t truly have a firm opinion on the guy except to say that he painted a huge number of pictures.  I admire the work ethic, at the very least.

    Prints of my pastiche can be found if you click on the picture.  Enjoy!

  • Modern Women Running on Beach Pastiche

    Oil on Canvas – 16″x 20″

    Someone from DA taught me a new word.  It’s a very special word and I plan to use it to describe future paintings.  Apparently, I was creating a bunch of “pastiches” without even realizing there was a word for it.  Sort of like that time I was painting all those fishes on bicycles without ever having heard the saying:  “a woman without a man…”  I’m sure you know the remainder of that quote.

    My new series of paintings are not quite “satires” or “parody”, and fall upon the bare minimal qualifications for a “tribute”.  A pastiche (according to Wikipedia) is like an imitation with some other things thrown in there (not quite a satire, but, sometimes a satire).
    …Anyway, this is my pastiche of Picasso’s “Women Running On The Beach”.  Enjoy!