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Living Paintings.The ‘Tableau Vivant’ is a tradition which has been traced as far back as Elizabethan times. It is often used in modern cinema and theatre in a generalized way with groups and individuals, objects or landscapes photographed or placed in such a way as to recall a certain artistic style. Some filmmakers, such as Pasolini, Godard and Sally Potter, have used very deliberate and precise tableaux vivants.More Information
 All my performances within this genre are representations of living breathing people or of living breathing portraits. They are slow and strange, and the life in them is intensified. Only the Mona Lisa differs from this in that she is a ‘number’: a comic piece. I do my own research both artistic and of painting and making materials. I adapt abstractions and physical contortions into human form and painted illusion, such as the placing of the body Picasso’s Harlequin, and the distorted hands in that same picture and in Lautrec’s Englishman at The Moulin Rouge. All backgrounds, make up, clothes and props are executed by me. [Note. Only on television am I asked to keep still and do what I call “the Scooby Doo gag”, i.e. suddenly come to life.] |
 ‘variation on ‘magritte's son of man’: René Magritte |
 ‘compilation self portrait’ : Vincent Van Gogh |
 ‘Portrait of Madame Matisse’ : Henri Matisse |
 ‘Portrait of Joseph Roulin’ (Postman of Arles) : Vincent Van Gogh |
 From ‘An Englishman at the Moulin Rouge’ : Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Caravaggio |
 ‘Portrait of La Gioconda,(Monna Lisa)’ : Leonardo da Vinci |
 ‘Portrait of La Gioconda,(Monna Lisa)’ : Leonardo da Vinci |
 ‘Portrait of La Gioconda,(Monna Lisa)’ : Leonardo da Vinci |
 from ‘Au Lapin Agile ’ (Arlequin au verre)’ :Pablo Picasso 1905 |
 ‘After Braque c.1910’: Braque |
 ‘Potrait of girl with ermine’: Leonardo da Vinci (n.b. the original is in colour) |
