UNDERGROUND ART CATALOG

a Fluxus Midwest project

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo (c. 1503-1506) Displayed underground May 10, 2008 4 x 5 3/8 x 1-inches. Wooden block cut from scrap lumber used to repair the roof of my house, canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus (c. 1482-1486) Displayed underground May 17, 2008 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 1-inches. Wooden block cut from scrap lumber used to repair the roof of my house, canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Rene Magritte - The Son of Man (1964) Displayed underground June 21, 2008 4 x 5 1/4 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh's Room at Arles (1889) Displayed underground June 28, 2008 5 1/4 x 4 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (with rusted tar-paper nail), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Fra Angelico - Noli Me Tangere (Touch me not) (1440-1441) Displayed underground July 5, 2008 4 1/16 x 5 1/8 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthy Delights (1503-1504) Displayed underground July 19, 2008 Three panels. 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 3/4-inches overall size. Center panel is 5 x 5 1/4 inches. Side panels are 2 1/2 x 5 1/4-inches. Three wooden blocks cut from 60-year-old boards removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, brass hinges, screws, and staples.

Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky - Composition X (1939) Displayed underground July 26, 2008 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Grant Wood - Haying (1939) Displayed underground August 2, 2008 4 7/16 x 3 7/8 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - God Creates Adam (1508 - 1512) Displayed underground August 9, 2008 8 x 3 1/2 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house, canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Paul Klee - Insula Dulcamara (1938) Displayed underground August 16, 2008 7 x 3 1/2 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block with rusty nail cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Gustav Klimt - The Virgins (Die Jungfrau) (1913) Displayed underground August 23, 2008 4 15/16 x 5 1/16 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

El Greco (Domenikos Theokopoulos) - View of Toledo (1596 - 1600) Displayed underground August 30, 2008 5 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house, canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Georges Seurat - The Circus (1891) Displayed underground September 6, 2008 4 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house, canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Peter Paul Rubens - Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) Displayed underground September 8, 2008 3 1/2 x 6 7/8 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued together), canvas with iron-on transfer images, and staples.

Rembrandt van Rijn - Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee (1633) Displayed underground September 20, 2008 4 3/4 x 6 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images stapled to board.

Andy Warhol - Marilyn (1964) Displayed underground September 27, 2008 4 3/4 x 5 x 3/4-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with iron-on transfer images stapled to board.

Salvador Dali - El gran masturbador (1929) Displayed underground October 4, 2008 6 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 3/5-inches. Wooden block cut from 60-year-old board removed from the roof of my house (split pieces glued and stapled together), canvas with transfer images stapled to board.

Asensio Julia (previously attributed to Goya) El Coloso painted between 1808-1812 Displayed underground October 11, 2008 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2-inches. Wooden block cut from split firewood log, transfer images on canvas wrapped and stapled around face of log.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - Medical Exam (1894) Displayed underground October 18, 2008 4 1/2 x 6 x 2 3/8-inches. Wooden block cut from split firewood log, transfer images on canvas wrapped and stapled around face of log.

Edvard Munch - The scream (1893) Displayed underground October 25, 2008 5 x 6 1/4 x 3-inches. Wooden block cut from split firewood log, transfer images on canvas wrapped and stapled around face of log.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses ("Grandma Moses") - Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey (1943) Displayed underground November 1, 2008 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/8-inches. Wooden block cut from split firewood log, transfer images on canvas wrapped and stapled around face of log.

to be continued

Allen Bukoff/Fluxus Midwest

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