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
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John Cutler – Matisse Gathering in a Kandinsky Landscape
Acrylic and collage on paper
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John Cutler – Hermitage Cacophony
Collage: paper on paper |
SRW – Lady in Black (after Renoir)
Graphite on paper
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SRW – Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya (after Matisse)
Gouache and ink on paper |
Chris – Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Homage to Matisse)
Acrylic on paper
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Dieter – The Absinthe Drinker (after Picasso)
Acrylic on paper
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Lynn Laws – Two Women (After Picasso’s Two Sisters)
Pastel on paper |
Lynn Laws – Study of Michelangelo’s Crouching Boy
Charocoal & graphite on paper
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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 – Daggers and Dagger Cases (Yemeni Collection at the Hermitage)
Ink and graphite on paper
Harriet – Fantasy Clock (after Yemeni collection in Hermitage Museum)
Mixed media and collage: paper on paper
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Jane C – Catherine the Great at the Hermitage (After Picasso)
Gouache on paper
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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
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Paula – Inspired by Burnt by the Sun’ directed by Nikita Mikhalkov (1936)
Hand-sewn thread and buttons on fabric
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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
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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 |