Let's go fly a kite!

The last week of classes is underway at UMT and today Charles' art history class put their learning on display with kites!  The assignment was to decorate the kite in the manner of a Fauvist or Cubist artist.  

From the write-up Charles' submitted:

The inspiration for my kite comes from two sources. The first, is the painting by Georges Braque 'Viaduct at L'Estaque'  (1908).   The second inspiration is Modest Mussorgsky's tenth movement of ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ - La grande porte de Kiev (The Great Gate of Kiev - 1874).  Braque’s painting uses earth tones which allows the subject, the viaduct, to stand out on its own while at the same time making it part of an extended whole.  

My depiction of the Great Gate of Kiev uses colors and shapes to convey the massive nature of the plans by Victor Hartmann for a commemorative gate honoring Tsar Alexander II’s escape of an assassination attempt.  The gate was never built but in my depiction, the gate is what the architect intended.