BULL! by Bob Kessel

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Bob Kessel has created a new print titled, “BULL!” based on the works of Pablo Picasso. The picture is available as limited edition fine art print, signed and numbered by the artist. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.

Pablo Picasso created ‘Bull’ in 1945. ‘Bull’ is a suite of lithographs that have become a master class in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, Picasso starts with a classical rendering of a bull. Then in a series of progressive steps, reduces it to pure abstraction.

Bob Kessel takes a slightly different tack, placing the different levels of abstraction in the same picture. A Picasso linoleum block print style bull looks at his Mondrianesque abstracted image in an oval mirror.

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BULL by Picasso

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Roy Lichtenstein tried his hand at this exercise
in this six step series.

Bob Kessel’s art series “LIFE’S A BEACH” features pictures based on the seashore. These pictures are available as signed and numbered limited edition fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for pricing and availability.

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TOPLESS GIRL by Bob Kessel

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BEACH UMBRELLA by Bob Kessel

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BEACH TWO CHAIRS by Bob Kessel

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BEACH UMBRELLA AND CHAIR by Bob Kessel

If you notice, the dots in Lichtenstein’s art are on a different plane than the line drawing. The dots are there only to represent a halftone from 4 color comic printing. My thinking was, what if one of the dots actually represented something on the line art picture plane? But i decided to use them this time in a witty way (at least to me it seems witty). So, what looks like a red dot? I thought it would be funny to use the dot as a nipple in a nude. The white is bathing suit tan line, which isolates one red dot that represents a nipple.

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NUDE WITH TAN LINES by Bob Kessel

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Another Roy Lichtenstein dots picture. There is usually a card with title of artwork next to pictures in gallery. When a picture is sold, the gallery puts a red dot sticker next to it. The large circle represents a spot light, which usually is on artwork in gallery. For me it echoes the circular dot theme and gives interest to the “negative” space (that is if you consider the “painting of dots” to be the “positive” space, even though it is open to the surrounding white paper and therefore by definition “nothing”. WHEW! Does that make any sense?

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SOLD! by Bob Kessel

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ROY’S ROOM by Bob Kessel

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“NUDE WITH TAN LINES”, “ROY’S ROOM” and “SOLD!” by Bob Kessel, can be purchased as a signed and numbered limited edition original fine art print. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.

See more Roy Lichtenstein inspired art  by Bob Kessel here.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN + PIET MONDRIAN + BOB KESSEL = BOB KESSEL ART

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