Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 26 Bob Thompson |
Homage to Nina Simone
About the Artist ~ Art and Jazz in New York ~ Nina Simone ~ About this Object ~ Inspiration ~ Look Questions ~ Think Questions
Key Points
- Bob Thompson's painting Homage to Nina Simone celebrates the singer Nina Simone and expresses the artist's feelings about jazz music.
- By carefully arranging the boldly colored figures into triangular groups, Thompson lends a sense of calm to this lively scene.
- Thompson freely based the COMPOSITION of his homage on a 17th-century painting that he studied in Paris showing a celebration of Bacchus, the Roman wine god.
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