One
of the events in which Art Cartists took the forefront at the '99 artsEdge Festival and
Art Car Blow-Out was a workshop to make a new art car.
Jeb Lewis--one of the friendly volunteers who was so helpful to the Art Car group at artsEdge--donated his old Toyota fastback, "The King," to be transformed into Seattle's newest Art Car. Leopard Lady Kelly Lyles and Michael "Toast" O'Driscoll came up with the campy, self-referential theme of an art car spoofing great works of art. Accordingly, the car was primed with white paint and outlines of classic art works were sketched onto it. The cartoons were colored in by Squadron members using 1-Shot sign painter's enamels over the course of the artsEdge weekend.
Below is pictured Dr. Schlock's favorite, a take-off on Rodin's Le Penseur, pondering one of the weightiest existential dilemmas of our time. Other works parodied included the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Dali's melting clocks, Picasso's Guernica, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Egyptian art, cave paintings, tiki art, Edweard Munch's The Scream, the portraits of Washington and Lincoln on U.S. paper currency, and Van Gogh's self-portrait with bandaged head (the severed ear makes its first-ever appearance outside the picture frame).
To finish it all off, a pallette of colors with crossed brushes rampant was painted on the hood like a coat of arms, and real paintbrushes, pallettes, old tubes of oil paint, pencils and Rapidographs were glued all over the car's roof and trim. Click here to see the car as it was being transformed.
Here is the finished product posed at the "Wailing Wall" on E. Union Street in the Central District a few weeks after being completed.
Jeb Lewis--one of the friendly volunteers who was so helpful to the Art Car group at artsEdge--donated his old Toyota fastback, "The King," to be transformed into Seattle's newest Art Car. Leopard Lady Kelly Lyles and Michael "Toast" O'Driscoll came up with the campy, self-referential theme of an art car spoofing great works of art. Accordingly, the car was primed with white paint and outlines of classic art works were sketched onto it. The cartoons were colored in by Squadron members using 1-Shot sign painter's enamels over the course of the artsEdge weekend.
Below is pictured Dr. Schlock's favorite, a take-off on Rodin's Le Penseur, pondering one of the weightiest existential dilemmas of our time. Other works parodied included the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Dali's melting clocks, Picasso's Guernica, Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Egyptian art, cave paintings, tiki art, Edweard Munch's The Scream, the portraits of Washington and Lincoln on U.S. paper currency, and Van Gogh's self-portrait with bandaged head (the severed ear makes its first-ever appearance outside the picture frame).
Here is the finished product posed at the "Wailing Wall" on E. Union Street in the Central District a few weeks after being completed.
- Return to 1999 Art Car Blow-Out! Pictures Page - Our First Year
- Art Car Blowout 2011 Pictures
- Seattle Art Cars Roster -- circa 2002
- Visit City of Art's Seattle Street Art Site
- Return to 1999 Art Car Blow-Out! Pictures Page - Our First Year
- Art Car Blowout 2011 Pictures
- Seattle Art Cars Roster -- circa 2002
- Visit City of Art's Seattle Street Art Site