[Maudie (dir. Aisling Walsh, 2016).]
The Canadian artist Maud Lewis used sardine cans to hold her paints. Here, look. Notice the Campbell’s Soup can too, put to un-Warholian use.
Today is National Sardines Day. Let us, each in our own way, honor the small oily fish.
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Friday, November 24, 2017
Sardine art
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Yes, I noticed that, too. I've been saving sardine and tuna cans for my paintings for some time now. Perhaps it's time to do a sardine painting and put those cans to use!
ReplyDeleteI think you should take this post as a sign. :)
ReplyDeleteCROW: I sooooo want one of your sardine paintings to hang on my wall, and I haven't even seen one yet (since they don't exist yet).
ReplyDeletePlease paint some!!!
--Fresca
MICHAEL: I hope you don't mind me hijacking your comments here... :)
Not at all!
ReplyDeleteI’d prefer skinless and boneless, but full-fledged sardines would be funner to paint.
Yes, à la Marsden Hartley.
ReplyDeleteHuh! The one piece of sardine art I know is Michael Goldberg’s Sardines (referenced in Frank O’Hara’s “Why I Am Not a Painter”), an abstraction, with traces of the word SARDINES on the canvas.
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess Hartley's are mackerel--hefty silvery rocket-shaped fish that remind me of sardines.
ReplyDeleteBut there must be more art about sardines, surely? No?
There’s a wild one by Goya, The Burial of the Sardine, but it doesn’t show the sardine. I haven’t seen anything else by a Famous Artist.
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