He stayed in the United States and made the city his home. Just a few years ago, as he explained during a series of interviews conducted at his downtown Manhattan studio, he created his Earth Series , a group of about 15, mostly large-format, acrylic-on-canvas pictures.
Their subject matter, which he depicted in his signature, realist style — stars, planets, and galactic cascades of flowers or swarms of monarch butterflies — collectively called attention to the vastness of space and time, and to the presence of the Earth, its inhabitants, and the larger galaxy of which they are a part within a greater, unfathomable universe.
Subsequently, since , Nakagawa has been developing a new group of thematically related paintings that, as he tells it, emerged unexpectedly out of his work on the earlier one. Now, in this Mona Lisa Earth Series , the painter puts its central, mysteriously grinning, easily recognizable subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments, as well as symbolic uses, in complex images whose ambitious artistic and intellectual reach echoes that of his earlier pictures.
Over the past several months, Nakagawa generously allowed this visitor into his studio to observe his creative process and watch as some of the complex compositions in the Mona Lisa Earth Series evolved and found their form. I was interested in the origins of the universe and of humanity, and in the health of the Earth. After all, in the past, in a related way, a lot of my work had depicted nature.
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series , he also notably refers to Western art history — but his collage-like compositions also bring together a myriad of different sources, from ancient Egyptian pyramids and atomic-bomb mushroom clouds to Madonna performing in her cone bra. Though the foregoing suggests that it would be no surprise that Leonardo used a canvas support for some of his works, one fact pretty well confirms beyond reasonable doubt that he did.
In his Treatise On Painting Leonardo describes in detail not only how to prepare canvas for painting, but also how to paint on it. The complexion is made-up of white of ceruse lacquer, and Flanders yellow; the shadow will be made from black, burnt umber and a little lacquer, or if you prefer, a hard pencil. The longer the mixture is left the better the result, as it remains matt. If you want your shadows darker, take the same gummed lacquer, adding ink.
You can use this mixture to shade numerous other colours including azurite, lacquer, etc. I have stated for the shadows, now for the highlights you can make tints from using a simple gum arabic lacquer over the top of undiluted lacquer and over this is applied a diluted veil of dry cinnabar. Now this description is key for two reasons. First, it demonstrates unquestionably that Leonardo did paint on canvas. All of this knowledge was gathered through real life experiences and experiments and it would be simply impossible to believe he would describe the details of a process he never executed himself.
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The damage is faint but still noticeable. The addition of bulletproof glass repelled subsequent attacks with spray paint in and a coffee cup in She cannot be bought or sold. Truly priceless, the painting cannot be bought or sold according to French heritage law.
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