Manet, drunk toys and a basement painting

 Manet, toys create art- but just for reference there is this you tube video of what we shall try to achieve with the toys laying around. It is helpful to have had loads of children in the house over the years, I am still finding toys in the recesses, as well as all of the socks that the dryer ate! They are showing up in unusual places, all sizes.

 

I made the bar keeper, Suzon-"The woman at the bar is a real person, known as Suzon, who worked at the Folies-Bergère in the early 1880s. For his painting, Manet posed her in his studio."-  I painted a wooden bead for her head, used pipe cleaner, wool, bead buttons, and embroidery thread for her hair. I had some tattered eyelet hanging around so used that to fancy her up a bit. The theater crowd came from the toys that have lived here since the lad was little. 

The liquor bottles are from the hardware drawer. The only alchoholic drink that Suzon can serve are screw drivers. C'est La vie....

Fresca has great ideas! She will post her Toys Recreating Art on Sunday.

This  morning very early- setting up the toys, It is nearly noon now, and they are all drunk!

Everything collapsed sending G.I Joes to the floor.

Suzon will hang around for a while, makes a good Christmas ornament. Her arms are flexible so she can hang onto shiney bits and bobs to make a festive  looking "angel".

While down in the basement, that is  full of boxes of toys and nonsense, I took a photo of the painting that my Auntie gave me after she moved into smaller digs back in the sixties.

 It takes  up way too much wall! The full length of a sofa! Mid century Paris street scene done by Vine's whomever that is- probably a guy in a shopping mall pumping these out like pop corn - anyway, My Auntie thought I needed some shine in my house as   my aesthetic is earthy and blah- it lives in the basement.  I do appreciate the goppy texture of the oil paint, the relaxed impressionistic style, the swish swoosh of the moody sky. She paid way too much for it back in the day- seems to have appreciated over the years according to DIBS.

Still it looks shopping mall French  to me- I am not a fan.