The Birds av David Yarrow
P Dette kunstverket omsettes ved Fineart som mellommann i opphavsmannens navn, og er således unntatt MVA. Les mer
Innrammet med en sort massiv trelist og canvastrukket passepartout. Rammen er et kunstverk i seg selv og en integrert del av kunstverket. Finnes i to størrelser:
Standard: 132 x 193 cm | Large: 180 x 272 cm
Målene er yttermålet på rammen
OBS: 4-6 ukers leveringstid
Kunstnerens egen kommentar
Devon, England - 2020
There is a famous scene in The Birds, when Hedren - alone in a tiny boat - is first attacked by a seagull. That was the moment I wanted to
recreate. The special effects in the movie are now somewhat mocked, but for 1963, he did one hell of a job in creating terror. Like Spielberg with
Jaws a dozen years later, his limited post production toolkit did not detract from his creation. Jaws famously made 50 times its cost of production,
whilst The Birds only made four, but they are both classics of the screen and they do unequivocally stand the test of time.
For our recreation, I wanted as expansive and layered a narrative as possible. Why be lame? There is a lighthouse 18 miles out to sea from our
home called Eddystone. It was first built in 1698, over 70 years before people first settled in San Francisco and I rather liked that. Over and above
that, it offered a special backdrop if it were to come off. It was a long shot - the English Channel is not friendly and getting a tiny wooden boat out
there would be challenging, even before dropping our very own Tippi Hedren into it.
The last piece of the jigsaw was getting the seagulls. I want to thank Ian Perks - the Godfather of the trawling fleet in the busiest fishing port in
England, Brixham - for arranging the trawlers to gut their fish on location rather than back at base. “Build it and they will come”.
At about 6.10 pm on a glorious mid-June evening it all came off. The benign weather made the feared English Channel a mill pond, the birds came
and Bella Di Lorenzo, in her tiny rowing boat, was a fearless superstar.