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make work like that anymore, me included.
I would feel complete if I painted only one
of these in my whole life. He somehow
painted 20 in one life.”
Another artist inspired by Mucha is
Suchitra Bhosle whose Le Printemps de
Mucha “stems from the idea to explore the
seasons and muses Mucha used for his
compositions.” Bhosle continues, “I was
getting my model to pose for this painting
and we struck various gestures to emote the
nature of the theme in mind, but when my
model took that break to kneel down and was
studying the backdrop of this illustration, it
seemed so fitting and natural that it probably
resembled the way in which Mucha may have
attempted to pose his models with a specific
design objective in mind. So, I went with the
idea of exploring the feeling of spring, using
the palette you see, which is reminiscent of
the art nouveau colors—the pale and grayed
tones of greens and reds—and tried to bring
about the feeling of spring through this color
vibration. The composition happened so
naturally that I stopped posing my muse and
tried to express her love for the involvement
in the whole narrative.”
Man on the Rodin Staircase by Nicolas
Martin depicts a man standing on a grand
staircase. “There is a big contrast between
the size of the room and this lonely man. All
the elements and especially the composition
accentuate this idea,” explains Martin. “The
moment the person begins to climb the stairs
one by one, I want the viewer to hear the
sound of the footsteps; it should resonate.”
The atmosphere of Paris is the focus
of Kyle Stuckey’s painting One Night in
Paris. Stuckey shares, “The mixture of the
hustle-bustle with the somehow still private
feeling—like little candlelit dining tables
that are tucked under the canopies along
the sides of towering buildings—is one of
the things I find so charming about city life.
This painting is intended to capture that
environment, that feeling of quietness and
busyness coexisting.”
Adrienne Stein’s The Painted Cape
“depicts my dear friend Kaitlin amidst a sea
of dogwood flowers in May,” she says. “I was
inspired by my favorite abstract expressionist
painters to make her garment look like a
tapestry of brushstrokes, flowing into the
background space and giving the impression
that she is floating in a world of paint.”
Americans in Paris “Art Nouveau” will
include events with live art history lectures
and artist demonstrations. “We are proud to
be ‘making art history’ with this innovative
fine art project,” says Rothe. “The new art we
are making is infused with ideas from the
past, but also draws from modern concepts
and techniques. This show will go down in
history in the collections of top patrons, fine
art magazines and books of the era.”
Vanessa Rothe Fine Art
418 Ocean Avenue • Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(949) 280-1555 • http://www.vanessarothefineart.com
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Pavel Sokov, Alphonse Mucha,
oil on linen, 24 x 18"
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C.W. Mundy, Monet’s Lily Pond,
Giverny, oil on linen, 20 x 16"
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Kyle Stuckey, One Evening in
Paris, oil on canvas on board,
18 x 24"
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Karen Offutt, The Dancing
Muse, oil and gold metal leaf
on board, 20 x 16"
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Suchitra Bhosle, Le Printemps
de Mucha, oil on linen, 30 x 24"
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