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Hi all,


I am looking for some art to go on the walls of my new surgery; can anyone point me in the direction of foot-related art? I vaguely remember viewing a link from here which contained some lovely prints of feet in an Andy Warhol style but i cant find the link. Hope someone remembers it and can find it for me!

Thank you,

Crystal Tips

 

Crystal tips

There are several lithographs of corn cutters available and you might like to try ebay as a source. In the eighteenth century painters became interested in everyday lives and the things people did for a living, so there are many examples of oil paintings showing corn cutting and shoe making.

Shoes in art have long held a fascination for artists from Van Goch to Alan Jones, the shoe holds its own as an icon and inspiration. Vittore Carpaccio (1450-1522) was a Venetian painter and depicted shoes as turreted instruments of torture, designed to seduce. As a painter Carpaccio was influenced by Giovanni Bellini and painted with rich colour and a wealth of detail. Jean-Antoine Watteau, (1684–1721 - Rococco style) was another Flemish painter who studied in the studio of Claude Gillot. Some of Watteau's finest paintings, were based on theatrical life e.g. Love in the French Theatre. A great colourist, he executed sensuous scenes in shimmering pastel tones which influenced both fashion and garden design in the 18th cent. In his painting Indifference, he paints little satin slippers.

Edouard Manet (1832–83), is often credited as being the father of modern art. His influences were Velázquez (pronounced, Valaskiss) and Goya, then later by Japanese, printmakers. In 1863 he painted Luncheon on the Grass, which when it was displayed was violently attacked. The painting depicts a nude woman enjoying a picnic in the woods with two fully clothed men. Subsequently the picnic became a common theme in modern painting. Manet's true masterpiece was entitled Olympia (1863), and was an arresting portrait of a naked courtesan reclining on a chaise longue. The theme by itself, reclining nude, had been popular for centuries but what Manet did, which subsequently outraged the critics and public, was to introduce the shoe to its role of erotic synecdoche (pronounced syn ekto key) or symbol. Eventual acceptance of the shoe as a representation of the female vulva was considered by many experts to be pivotal to the development of western modern art. Contemporary development of psychoanalysis (Freud) made the eventual connection between contents and container to the point of singling out the specific sexual and fetishistic aspects of the foot and shoe. The deductive logic or syllogism was if the foot represented the phallus then the shoe must be the vagina. René Magritte (1898–1967) was a Belgian surrealist painter who developed a style of surrealism in which misleading realism was combined with mocking irony. Based on Freudianism, the artist in his works the Red Model (Le Modele Rouge) elaborated fantasies constructed around common situations and metamorphosed the shoe into the foot. This unisex image many argue was destined to trouble our dreams, ever since. The Pop Art movement emerged at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists used common images to express abstract formal relationships. Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol attempted to fuse elements of popular and high culture and to erase the boundaries between the two. Shoes became one of the emblems of the movement because they represented status and consumerism. It is probably no accident Andy Warhol started off as a commercial artist drawing shoes. Today’s artistic work painted on shoes is a commercial extension of the same abstract movement.

Alan Jones studied painting and lithography at Horsley College of Art before becoming a graduate from the Royal College of Art in 1959. He became part of the Pop Art movement and took his inspiration from the way people interacted and was fascinated with the fusion of male and female qualities. Mail order catalogues and fetish magazines of the 40s and 50s provided him with ideas and he was one of the first artists to use commercial imagery in his paintings. Hones has been truly transfixed by feet and legs which prominently feature in his works. The concept of real and false intrigued the artist as he experimented with sculpture and although he soon returned to painting many experts believe his paintings take on sculpture quality in two dimensions. Colour is also important to the artist and he associates it with gender with black and red are masculine and yellow feminine. He also uses hues to add emotional or aesthetic density to his images. Symbolism a la Freud and Jung play key roles in many of his works with a crumpled trilby or tie definite male attributes. He paints modern myths of sexual identity with humour and allusion, focusing on the mystery of sex rather than attempting to explain it. His common themes of legs and high-heeled shoes represent the entire body and the artist frequently juxtaposes himself with his fantasies in a collage style, like a family album. Alan Jones could be controversial, no more so than his fibreglass female mannequins, forged as everyday furniture like tables and chairs. They were object d’art and not for functional use but did raise the wrath of feminists concerned at the implied implication.

Elmer Batters was a talented photographer in the 1940s who became artistically preoccupied with feet and legs. His vision of a lady began at the tips of her toes and ran to the tops of her hose. His studies of legs feet and toes have became modern art collector’s pieces. Cheesecake had its golden age between the 1920s and 1950s spanning Art Deco to Modern Art. The former featured the female figure as a glamour icon and illustrators took this theme and crossed it over to pin up.

Framing a shoe always hold attention.

toeslayer

 

Some food for thought there Toeslayer, thanks!

 

I eventually found what i was looking for, just in case anyone is interested, there are some lovely prints here;

http://www.medartposters.com/healing.htm

Scroll down to the bottom where the feet are.

 

those posters look FAB. If you find any others similar give me a shout. I love them. Where is that company based>? Do they ship to the UK?

 

They are based in the USA somewhere, but ship anywhere. Shipping cost is dependent on location and weight. Contact them for a price, you can e mail from the website.

 

There is a couple of good books.

Michel Tcherevkoff's Shoe-Fleur: A Footwear Fantasy, (2007) http://www.shoefleur.com/

is published by Welcome Books and distributed by Random House, features artfully designed shoes created from a variety of individual fresh flowers.

and

The Botanical Footwear of Dennis Kyte(1998) Swann Island Books.
http://www.amazon.com/Botanical-Footwear-Dennis-Kyte/dp/155670853X

Dennis Kyte is a marvelous illustrator.

toeslayer