{"id":4009,"date":"2015-03-30T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booyorker.wpengine.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:17:42","slug":"artist-cartoon-fun-old-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booyorkcity.com\/artist-cartoon-fun-old-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist brings cartoon fun to Old Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York artist is bringing fun to the art world by inserting classic cartoon characters into Old Master paintings.<\/p>\n

Paul Hecker\u2019s work sees Popeye serving at the diner in Edward Hopper\u2019s Nighthawks<\/em>, the Gummi Bears living it up at Toulouse Lautrec\u2019s At The Moulin Rouge<\/em>, and the bad guys from GI Joe seated at Da Vinci\u2019s Last Supper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hecker started on the series after brainstorming funny ideas with friends over drinks one night. He said: \u201cYou know those\u00a0inspirational off-the-cuff conversations, where you either forget the idea entirely or choose to act upon what’s said.<\/p>\n

\"DINER...Hecker's<\/a>

DINER…Hecker’s painting Popeye Hopper<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWell, I chose to act, and it’s become a rather long endeavor – almost five years already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hecker \u2013 who also works as a scenic artist in the movie industry \u2013 calls his paintings \u2018remastered masterworks\u2019 and says he\u2019s inspired by everything from art history to theatre, film, and the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to be open to accepting all and any information that has aesthetic visual beauty. If it\u2019s funny, its just a bonus that befits my positive and happy-go-lucky character.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, He-Man and Skeletor were monumental figureheads in my youth. For such a crap cartoon, those guys really made an influence on my aesthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GLAMOR...Miss<\/a>

GLAMOR…Miss Piggy plays Muppet Madame X<\/p><\/div>\n

Other cartoon treatments include Vermeer\u2019s Girl With A Pearl Earring, which has been subverted into a comment on the Dutch exploration of the Orient with the addition of Japanime’s Sailor Moon character; The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Raphael\u2019s School of Athens fresco from the Sistine Chapel; and Miss Piggy as John Singer-Sergeant\u2019s Madame X.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2028The genesis is always a play on imagery,\u201d Hecker explains. \u201cI take a masterpiece and try to establish a connection between what’s being portrayed and a cartoon character who either looks characteristically similar, or storyline-wise might fit in the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cI then transcribe the layout of the masterpiece on canvas and replicate it, later adding in the character.<\/p>\n

\"SMILE...Hecker's<\/a>

SMILE…Hecker’s Mona Lego harks back to Da Vinci<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI usually work up three to six paintings at a time from start and sometimes more – as it’s hard to ever call anything finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorks that are grouped together like this often take on similarities in color and style, forming a little unit or mini series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI date them with a year of completion, but it only loosely defines a timeframe. I’d say most of my paintings take a year or two, because of the seemingly unending details and multiplicity of simultaneous works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BAD<\/a>

BAD GUYS…Cobra Commander from GI Joe as the Messiah in the Last Suffer<\/p><\/div>\n

Hecker recently exhibited at Brouwerij Lane craft beer store in Brooklyn, where over 20 of his cartoon-based works were displayed at a show entitled Masquerading Masterpieces.<\/p>\n

For the future, he\u2019s sticking to the cartoon theme: \u201cI have a couple more classics to replicate, some French and Italian greats and maybe some Asian and African art artifacts. Time will tell. I have in progress a segue series of oil paintings of Dali paintings starring Disney Princesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

To buy Hecker\u2019s work, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BEAR<\/a>

BEAR NECESSITIES…a take on the work of Lautrec with Toulouse la Gummi<\/p><\/div>\n

\"IN<\/a>

IN THE CHAPEL…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in The School of Splinter<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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