Henri Toulouse Lautrec
La Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec
ca 1883
oil on canvas
93,5 x 81 cm
Busy working on a series of work about McDonald's restaurants around the
world, seen through Google Street View, I was browsing through a book of Henri
Toulouse Lautrec.
I was so into this McDonald's thing, that when I saw the portrait he made
of his mother, I immediately made the link with my own work.
The way she looks, like she is torn into something (the making of this
portrait) she doesn't want to be part of, is the look I wanted to give to my
portrait of the mother of Ronald McDonald.
Her face painted like “the clown”, she couldn't resist the demand of her
son to be portrayed like this, but I wanted to tell a different story by the
way she looks.
Henri Toulouse Lautrec made a lot of portraits that have an unfinished
result, that's the reason why I did the same with my work.
It symbolizes the loneliness, the void of being the mother of Ronald
McDonald.
Bram Kinsbergen, 2014
Bram Kinsbergen (BE)
Mama by Ronald McDonald by Bram Kinsbergen
2014
oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm
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