Call and Response: Whistler, Bastien-LePage, and Jeffrey Jones
Posted by: RC in Call and Response, Fine Art, Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine Jones, tags: Jeffrey "Jeff" Catherine JonesIn a recent reply to my blog entry entitled Call and Response: Franz Von Stuck and Jeffrey Jones, a reader suggested that I should “take a look at Jeff Jones’ ‘Chastity’ painting from 1978 and Bastien-LePage’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ (or ‘Joan of Arc’) from the late 1800s. The female figure’s pose was taken directly from the famous Symbolist/Naturalist painting hanging in NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
So, having a longstanding interest in the channels, permutations, and anxieties of influence, I immediately went and took a look, and now I’m here to say, if you’re a Jeffrey Jones fan, I think you should take a look, too. Thus, this post…
However, not to be outdone in the “spot the visual allusion” game, I’ve added the image of a second famous work that I think shaped Jones’s interesting-though-not-entirely-successful little painting just as much as, if not more than, Bastien-LePage’s obsessively detailed work.
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- ABOVE: James McNeill Whistler, Symphony In White 2 (1864), oil on canvas 76 x 51 cm.
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- ABOVE: Jules Bastien-LePage, Jeanne d'Arc (1879), oil on canvas.
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- ABOVE: Jules Bastien-LePage, detail, Jeanne d'Arc (1879), oil on canvas.
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- ABOVE: Jeffrey Jones, Chastity (1978), oil painting.
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- ABOVE: Jeffrey Jones, study for Chastity (1978), pencil on paper.
