This is a digitally produced collage of fragments from paintings by French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910).
The girl, lying among flowers, her eyes focused on the butterfly above her, is taken from a portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, made around 1488 by Italian painter Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/49 -1494).
All together forms a somewhat surreal but also cheerful and summery work of art.
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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