Art Project course gallery No. 6

Art Project: the State Hermitage Museum

This week’s brief saw us set off for our monthly virtual research trip where we headed east to the State Hermitage Museum, in St Petersburg, Russia, to explore the building and the collection via our laptops and Google Maps technology.

The first-class collection includes work by Durer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez, Van Gogh and Picasso, as well as artefacts including Faberge eggs, Roman and Greek sculpture, furniture, armour and tapestries, set in very grand, ornate surroundings

Here’s a selection of artwork and prepatory studies made by some of the Art Project course artists taking part in the project.

Look out for another gallery of work coming soon…

Vanda – Lockdown: The Hermitage Collections In Storage Acrylic on paper

John Cutler – Matisse Gathering in a Kandinsky Landscape Acrylic and collage on paper

John Cutler – Hermitage Cacophony Collage: paper on paper

SRW – Lady in Black (after Renoir) Graphite on paper

SRW – Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya (after Matisse) Gouache and ink on paper

Chris – Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Homage to Matisse) Acrylic on paper

Dieter – The Absinthe Drinker (after Picasso) Acrylic on paper

Lynn Laws – Two Women (After Picasso’s Two Sisters) Pastel on paper

Lynn Laws – Study of Michelangelo’s Crouching Boy Charocoal & graphite on paper

Maurice – Perspective Analysis
Ink on paper

Maurice – The Three Graces I – The Twenty Column Hall
Graphite and charcoal with digital image

Maurice – The Three Graces II – Oppression, Opposition and Opulence
Collage with digital images

Harriet – Fantasy Clock (after Yemeni collection in Hermitage Museum) Mixed media and  collage: paper on paper

Jane C – Catherine the Great at the Hermitage (After Picasso) Gouache on paper

Lorna Howell – Hands at the Hermitage Mixed media

Jill C. – Child with a Whip (After Renoir) Watercolour on paper

Jane Goddard – ‘Yes, more vases – but look up!’
Acrylic on paper

Paula – Inspired by the main staircase of ‘The Winter Palace’ Acrylic on calico with lace and buttons

Hilary – Just Wanted A Chocolate Bar (Inspired by Pietro Tenerani’s Psyche in a Faint) Acrylic on paper

Jo Melhuish – Artists’ Models Day Out At The Beach Acrylic on paper

Sylvie Fenton – Une journée à l’Hermitage de Saint Petersbourg Ink and watercolour on paper

Jill T – Winter Landscape “mashup” Kandinsky and von Klever Acrylic and watercolour on paper

Jill T. – Just Before We Closed Ink on paper