Suzanne Unrein

I have been studying the Old Masters, abstracting their compositions. I started with Rubens, Correggio and Raphael, then branched out to less likely combinations of Poussin and Bougereau. Now it’s the animaliers of the 17th & 18th centuries, the boar hunts and dogfights. By combining the hounds from these genres with the figures from more epic scenes the dogs become a dysfunctional Greek chorus further confusing the summarizing of a scene. I am less interested in the narrative than the elements and forms that inspire the abstraction, and movement, with a larger range of color combinations. By combining figures from a variety of artists in a range of eras, I want to transport them from their original meaning into the contemporary domain and the challenge of newer interpretations.