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Picasso's Citroen 2cv - An Art Car Inspired by Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar and Created by Andy Saunders

When I think of art cars, I envision a creative project with no re-sale value. A drive it 'til it drops personal statement.

Andy Saunders looked at one of Picasso's cubist portraits of Dora Maar and saw a cubist Citroen 2cv. His creative endeavor is more likely to sit on an art collector's pedestal, than rust along the curb in a tow zone.

Picasso's 1938 portrait of Dora Mar sold at auction in 2008 for $14.6 million.

Picasso's Citroen 2cv by Andy Saunders

More photos of the Picasso Citroen: here

(Not to be confused with the modern Citroen Picasso of which Saunders says, "I named it Picasso's Citroen and I think it is much better than the Citroen Picasso, which is a boring people carrier. I think I know which one Pablo would have preferred.")

Read the original article about the Andy Saunders Citroen 2cv: here

Les Tribus De L'Omo - The Painted People of the Surma and Mursi Tribes in Southern Ethiopia - Photos by Hans Silvester

Every now and then I discover with great joy a part of our world which leaves me filled with wonder. In the case of the Surma and Mursi people in Ethiopia, my delight is also visual. 

© Hans Silvester. All rights reserved.

I'm breathlessly left with the impulse to paint: canvases, my body, something, everything.

© Hans Silvester. All rights reserved.

Silvester describes his mission, "what’s most important for me is saving, in some way, as much as possible of this truly living art, which is mobile, changing, subject to infinite variation, and whose constituent elements are simple and form a link between man and nature. It seems to me that our modern painting found the purpose of these elements, this simplicity, and used it as its foundation."

HERE IS A SLIDE SHOW OF MORE THAN FIFTY OF SILVESTER'S IMAGES

Tribus de L'OMO / Hans Silvester

I'm happy to report that Hans Silvester has a new book featuring these photographs. The title is Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. It is available now at amazon.com HERE.

Hans Silvester published part one of this two book series in April 2007. It is Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley. The first volume of the deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles. Silvester's text details his experience.

Learn more about Hans Silvester's  time with the L'omo people at the Marlborough Gallery website HERE.

My thanks to Jayne McKay and Fifty is the New for alerting me to Hans Silvester's slide show.