Digital Studies of the drawing "New York After DeChirico", drawn in the mid 1960's.artwork and digital artwork by Paul A. L. Hall1/21/2004 Signed prints are available in two sizes. Click on the thumbnails below. |
Even since a child of three, I was fascinated by the work of De Chirico. My mother used to read a book to me called "The House of A Hundred Windows", about a cat that lived in a museum and looked at paintings as if they were windows. Finally one day, the cat came to an open door and came face to face with the real world, and that's where the story ends, leaving the reader (or the read to) to suppose what happened next.
I mean, you know the cat went out. That's what they do, it's their job to go on patrol, scent-mark as ranging a territory as possible and if the guys at the museum didn't let it back in later and feed it, it would go in search of another home.
But that reminds me of Liem Hindle's two cats at his place in Namandi Heights, in Suva, Fiji. I used to sing at Liem's nightclub, Lucky Eddie's, on McArthur Boulevard on Mondays and he let me use a room at his house to do some artwork. I got three paintings done there which later got stolen in Indonesia after going round the world with me, but I did get them photographed in Paris later and if I dig up the negatives, I'll put the pictures up on the site, if I still have room.
But the two cats were the extremely aloof type and one of them tried to urinate on one of the paintings quite symbolically in fact. However, it missed, probably intentionally. Not at all like the well-behaved cat in the book.
But one of the paintings shown as a "window" was by De Chirico of a little girl with a hoop dashing down a deserted surrealistic street in some empty city. As a child I was quite impressed with the girl's skill in keeping the hoop going while running so quickly. It stuck in my memory all these years.
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Digital Studies of the drawing "New York After De Chirico", drawn in the mid 1960's.
Digital Art by Paul A. L. Hall.