''The interactive oceanide'' an interactive work of Bruce Krebs in the La Rochelle Fine Arts Museum, in France.

Bruce Krebs has created a series of art works starting from the inheritance of the Fine arts Museum of La Rochelle, in France... Like "Exercises of style" of Raymond Queneau, but with pictures this time. The oceanide appears various versions... 19 versions to be discovered below. A feature of union between Bouguereau, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Mucha, Cheret, Guimard, Horta, Klimt, Dali, Magritte, de Chirico, John Kacere, Richard Estes, Munch, oulages, Vasarely and Marcel Duchamp...

"The interactive oceanide"

Ocean Nymph of William Bouguereau
Here the 19 declined styles by Bruce Krebs.

versions

Some words if you please, about my choices. First of all, it is not a question of the history of art, style by style. I just interpreted the painting of William Bouguereau "to have fun". I did not paint all these versions with painting, I created them numerically.

For the version pointillist, it need necessary much patience to draw it...

For the version "art nouveau" (1890-1910), my starting point was the Alphonse Mucha'posters and those of Jules Cheret, especially for the features of contour of the nuded model. The volutes of the hair are inspired by the graphics of Paul Guimard and Victor Horta.

The Austrian Secession did'nt been realy a school. Too often we associate, Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele with the Secession. But it is difficult, "graphically", to associate on the same image the styles of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, for example. I thus chose at the same time to take again more elements at Gustav Klimt while inspiring to me several of his paintings.

A surrealist version ! Years according to Dada, the Twenties... I could not prevent me ! I made a small mixture: Oceanide is suspended by small crutches as we could discovers in many tables of Salvador Dali. And this transparant rest ? that point out anything to you ? Rene Magritte of course ! And sculpture at the bottom on the left (the David of Michel-Angel, equipped by a Superman'tee-shirt) ? It's a wink with Giorgio de Chirico who had put sunglasses at a sculpture in sound "Guillaume Appolinaire'premonitory portrait" ... The glasses were too small on this picture. I thus chose the tee-shirt...

Version cubist: I introduced a false sheet of newspaper with the typography of the time. The color of paper of course is yellowed...

For pop art (1956), I was inspired obviously by works of Andy Warhol for the composition and Roy Lichtenstein for the effect of screen of printing works.

Hyperrealism. The Eighties, on the West of the United States ! The painters of this movement often did not comb of the naked women. Except John Kacere. They adored to mix the transparency and the reflections, the reflections of the transparency, and the transparency of the reflections... It is for what that I endeavoured to draw the transparency of the water which lets foresee a thigh under the wave. I think especially of paintings of Richard Estes.

To illustrate the German expressionnism, I used more contrasted colors. The naked woman opens eyes exorbities! I thought at "The cry" of Edwards Munch obviously... (Norwegian as each one knows)

The graff, it is comic strip. I studied the typography of the tagmans especially. I even requested council from the one of them, because it was necessary that it is very readable. After that, I encrusted it in a photograph with street.

Theobscure one! Georges de la Tour! We find us in the 17° centuries! Never these painters drew reflections on the sea lit by the simple moon. Their subjects were very intimate. Most of the time a candle, hidden by a red hand, lit hardly the characters in a modest room...

Rough Art. Of course Jean Dubuffet and Gaston Chaissac. I added two fish above the naïad and the edge of the sea...

The word "Op Art" is a contraction of the word "optical art"... It is a play for the eyes. They are only black bands on white zone, and yet we distinguishe the Oceanide ! In France, the uncontested Master is Vasarely.

In connection with Land-art, I carried out this very transitory work with Rivedoux-plage! On the Re island. Well, I recognize that it's idiotic. Never the artists practising Land-art did'nt want "to represent" something... Even less one allegory !... I said it to you yet, I approached these exercises of style like a play...

Is this a school style? The dripping was only the technique of one man, Jackson Pollock... Look at the picture ! You'll find a skech of the Oceanide...

Version Lyric abstraction. The Masters are Soulages, Hans Hartung, Mathieu and many others...

A version Neo-realism, more "Neo" than realistic besides... The painting of the years 2000

Version Conceptual art. It is a question of designing a work more than to carry it out. If it is carried out, it is not any more conceptual art...

For the "ready-made", like Marcel Duchamp did it !.. But I thought :"Whitch is thus moreover adapted to express the Oceanide ? ...a deckchair !"

I have made a little movie (2 minutes) sur
The numerical oceanide
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Bruce Krebs, sculptor
9 ter rue Amelot, 17 000 La Rochelle,
Charente Maritime, Poitou Charentes, France, Europe.
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Some words if you please, about my choices. First of all, it is not a question of the history of art, style by style. I just interpreted the painting of William Bouguereau "to have fun". I did not paint all these versions with painting, I created them numerically.
	For the version pointillist, it need necessary much patience to draw it...
	For the version "art nouveau" (1890-1910), my starting point was the Alphonse Mucha'posters and those of Jules Cheret, especially for the features of contour of the nuded model. The volutes of the hair are inspired by the graphics of Paul Guimard and Victor Horta.
	The Austrian Secession did'nt been realy a school. Too often we associate, Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele with the Secession. But it is difficult, "graphically", to associate on the same image the styles of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, for example. I thus chose at the same time to take again more elements at Gustav Klimt while inspiring to me several of his paintings.
	A surrealist version ! Years according to Dada, the Twenties... I could not prevent me ! I made a small mixture: Oceanide is suspended by small crutches as we could discovers in many tables of Salvador Dali. And this transparant rest ? that point out anything to you ? Rene Magritte of course ! And sculpture at the bottom on the left (the David of Michel-Angel, equipped by a Superman'tee-shirt) ? It's a wink with Giorgio de Chirico who had put sunglasses at a sculpture in sound "Guillaume Appolinaire'premonitory portrait" ... The glasses were too small on this picture. I thus chose the tee-shirt...
	Version cubist: I introduced a false sheet of newspaper with the typography of the time. The color of paper of course is yellowed...
	For pop art (1956), I was inspired obviously by works of Andy Warhol for the composition and Roy Lichtenstein for the effect of screen of printing works.
	Hyperrealism. The Eighties, on the West of the United States ! The painters of this movement often did not comb of the naked women. Except John Kacere. They adored to mix the transparency and the reflections, the reflections of the transparency, and the transparency of the reflections... It is for what that I endeavoured to draw the transparency of the water which lets foresee a thigh under the wave. I think especially of paintings of Richard Estes.
	To illustrate the German expressionnism, I used more contrasted colors. The naked woman opens eyes exorbities! I thought at "The cry" of Edwards Munch obviously... (Norwegian as each one knows)
	The graff, it is comic strip. I studied the typography of the tagmans especially. I even requested council from the one of them, because it was necessary that it is very readable. After that, I encrusted it in a photograph with street.
	Theobscure one! Georges de la Tour! We find us in the 17° centuries! Never these painters drew reflections on the sea lit by the simple moon. Their subjects were very intimate. Most of the time a candle, hidden by a red hand, lit hardly the characters in a modest room...
	Rough Art. Of course Jean Dubuffet and Gaston Chaissac. I added two fish above the naïad and the edge of the sea...
	The word "Op Art" is a contraction of the word "optical art"... It is a play for the eyes. They are only black bands on white zone, and yet we distinguishe the Oceanide ! In France, the uncontested Master is Vasarely.
	In connection with Land-art, I carried out this very transitory work with Rivedoux-plage! On the Re island. Well, I recognize that it's idiotic. Never the artists practising Land-art did'nt want "to represent" something... Even less one allegory !... I said it to you yet, I approached these exercises of style like a play...
	Is this a school style? The dripping was only the technique of one man, Jackson Pollock... Look at the picture ! You'll find a skech of the Oceanide...
	Version Lyric abstraction. The Masters are Soulages, Hans Hartung, Mathieu and many others...
	A version Neo-realism, more "Neo" than realistic besides... The painting of the years 2000
	Version Conceptual art. It is a question of designing a work more than to carry it out. If it is carried out, it is not any more conceptual art...
	For the "ready-made", like Marcel Duchamp did it !.. But I thought :"Whitch is thus moreover adapted to express the Oceanide ? ...a deckchair !"