I tried to deliver to the world a serious self portrait; of course I couldn’t do the job for myself: my wife Barbara had the difficult duty to consider, how to manage the problem. She decided to follow the footsteps of Rembrandt, creating a tribute to his famous painting “The man with the golden helmet”, painted 1650, presenting Rembrandt van Rijn‘s older brother Adriaen, a poor shoemaker in the Dutch city Leyden. But the comments from The Netherlands were not respectful as I had expected. My friend “mezze” from Nijmwegen wrote: “Last time I went out with a soup-pan on my head was in ’71, when I really, finally hád to walk my dog, hurricane or not, roof tiles falling down everywhere…“. Rob Hogeslag, The Netherlands as well, replied: “Je krijgt er wel een plat hoofd van. (means: this hat will form your head into a flat hat!). ReyGey: “Reminded me of images from World War 1“! “Auch Einer” (from Germany) wrote: “The hat and the confession in the eyes reminds me of Don Quijote, too. Hope you will find a Sancho Pansa to make a series out of it!” Comment by David Haggard (USA): “At first I thought you had taken the resonator out of your Dobro!” Last not least the comment by emrxgs:”The model has stoic Mona Lisa quality!”
related:
1) completely all the weekly-photo-challenges by frizztext
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2) http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/weekly-photo-challenge-self-portrait/ (No. 46)
links:
the man with the golden helmet
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The Italian artist professor LUIGI FRAPPI liked to work with humor
and photoshop again and created the following frizz-portrait,
not forgetting, that I like to play guitar very much 🙂
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17Dec / 2011
Weekly Photo Challenge: Self Portrait
I tried to deliver to the world a serious self portrait; of course I couldn’t do the job for myself: my wife Barbara had the difficult duty to consider, how to manage the problem. She decided to follow the footsteps of Rembrandt, creating a tribute to his famous painting “The man with the golden helmet”, painted 1650, presenting Rembrandt van Rijn‘s older brother Adriaen, a poor shoemaker in the Dutch city Leyden. But the comments from The Netherlands were not respectful as I had expected. My friend “mezze” from Nijmwegen wrote: “Last time I went out with a soup-pan on my head was in ’71, when I really, finally hád to walk my dog, hurricane or not, roof tiles falling down everywhere…“. Rob Hogeslag, The Netherlands as well, replied: “Je krijgt er wel een plat hoofd van. (means: this hat will form your head into a flat hat!). ReyGey: “Reminded me of images from World War 1“! “Auch Einer” (from Germany) wrote: “The hat and the confession in the eyes reminds me of Don Quijote, too. Hope you will find a Sancho Pansa to make a series out of it!” Comment by David Haggard (USA): “At first I thought you had taken the resonator out of your Dobro!” Last not least the comment by emrxgs:”The model has stoic Mona Lisa quality!”
related:
1) completely all the weekly-photo-challenges by frizztext
+
2) http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/weekly-photo-challenge-self-portrait/ (No. 46)
links:
the man with the golden helmet
+
+
The Italian artist professor LUIGI FRAPPI liked to work with humor
and photoshop again and created the following frizz-portrait,
not forgetting, that I like to play guitar very much 🙂
+
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