Dress Is As If Flesh ,a painting inspired by Velazquez, Infanta Margarita of 1653, by Carol Sutton

Carol Sutton artist - Dress Is As If Flesh Breda - 1986 Š

(1986) Dress Is As If Flesh Breda

December 3, 1986,

Size: 89" x99",226cm by 225.4 cm,

Materials: Golden Acrylic on cotton canvas

Source: Based on Velazquez's Infanta Margarita, of 1653, at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Maria Teresa of Spain ("with two watches") (80 Kb)

Provenance: Collection: of the artist

Web provenance: none prior to publication on http://www.carolsutton.net

credit: scan by Dale Clark, artist

Poem by Carol Lorraine Sutton, written February 20, 1987

{Infanta Maria , Vienna Museum}

Velazquez wants to paint the Princess nude

but he cannot

as this would be out of boundaries

so he imagines her dress

as if it were flesh, with all the nuances,

tones, and color of skin.

Another version:

Velasquez wanted to paint

the little princess nude

but he could not

as this was

out of boundaries

So he imagined her dress

As if it were flesh

with all the nuances and color of skin.

detail

Velazquez-Infanta Maria Teresa, or Infanta Margarita 1653, Kunsthistorisches

Source: Based on Velazquez's Infanta Margarita, of 1653,

also known as Maria Teresa of Spain ("with two watches") ,Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (80 Kb) /click to see full screen version at 698K

on the web at: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/velazquez/2-watches.jpg,

image credit to:Web Museum-Photographs by Mark Harden and Carol Gerten-Jackson.

2 paintings based on the idea of dress as flesh from Velazquez and Manet

(1986) Dress Is As If Flesh Breda

December 3, 1986,

Size: 89" x99",226cm by 225.4 cm,

Materials: Golden Acrylic on cotton canvas

Source: Based on Velazquez's Infanta Margarita, of 1653, at Kunst Museum, Vienna, Austria

Provenance: Collection: of the artist

Web provenance: none prior to publication on http://www.carolsutton.net

credit: scan by Dale Clark , artist

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(1986) Manet Dress Is As If Flesh Woman With Parrot and Velasquez No Specific Use of Violet

December 6 to 9, 1986,

Size: 227.3 cm by 22.6 cm,

Materials: Golden Acrylic on cotton canvas

Source: Based on Manet's painting titled: Woman with a Parrot and on Velazquez's use of violet, with no specific use of violet in my mind, but in particular I was thinking of the violet purple sash in the painting St. John the Baptist

Provenance: Collection: of the artist

Web provenance: Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art at: http://www.ccca.ca

credit: scan by William Kirby

Web provenance: http://www.carolsutton.net

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September 8, 2003, updated June 13, 2009