Screenprints Index | Richard Horvath Artworks
Voluptuousness, Calm and Luxury '82
1982
Woodcut with adhesive letters
65 x 54 cms
The desire to experiment with a low tech medium and the theft of the camera gear used for screen printing led to the testing of woodcut prints as an alternative. It was short lived and only two prints were kept.
The title of this example, Voluptuousness, Calm and Luxury '82, is a cynical take of the Henri Matisse painting, Volupte, Calme et Luxe, showing women enjoying life in an arcadian landscape. In the 1982 take, the idyllic landscape is replaced by Big John's car sales yard depicting a salesman showing a voluptuous interest in a female customer. In the still from the fine John Boorman film, Point Blank, which was used as the basis for this print, the customer reciprocates by patting a little white dog, here ambiguously indicated by outline only, sitting on the salesman's lap. The sensual colour palette and sinuous forms of the Matisse painting are reduced to flatly printed block colour and mechanical outlines.
The title of this example, Voluptuousness, Calm and Luxury '82, is a cynical take of the Henri Matisse painting, Volupte, Calme et Luxe, showing women enjoying life in an arcadian landscape. In the 1982 take, the idyllic landscape is replaced by Big John's car sales yard depicting a salesman showing a voluptuous interest in a female customer. In the still from the fine John Boorman film, Point Blank, which was used as the basis for this print, the customer reciprocates by patting a little white dog, here ambiguously indicated by outline only, sitting on the salesman's lap. The sensual colour palette and sinuous forms of the Matisse painting are reduced to flatly printed block colour and mechanical outlines.
