Repurposing Italian Renaissance Art

Both Pat and Ben have suggested using Renaissance art in my work and I've now decided that I'm going to take that advice on board and create some screen prints using artwork from this era. It fits well with my project as the whole Renaissance period itself was considered a rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman worlds; this relates to Cosmic Disco in the sense that this style of music also gave rise to a new era in Italian club culture through eclectic mixing and experiments with preexisting sounds. It was also considered the point in time that Italy crossed over from the middle ages into the modern era, which can also be related to the birth of cosmic disco! Before to Daniele Baldelli and other DJ's contributed to this new lease of life in Italian club culture, the clubs would simply play single tracks one by one rather than mixing. The scene in general was a lot more conservative, the polar opposite of what it became just a few years later. 

Also most of these paintings have quite a religious narrative being communicated within them. There is a relationship between this and music which I think will be good to try and communicate with my imagery. As music, just like religion, is often associated with being a means for transcending human existence in some way, almost supernatural. There's a divinity in music that cannot easily be explained or communicated and so I think using these works in conjunction with the interview with Baldelli will provide a really interesting perspective on it. 

Above are just a few examples of the kinds of paintings I could use. I am going to start with doing a CMYK screen print of one of these and just be really playful with the process to see how far I can push the art work so that it becomes something new whilst still holding a resemblance of the original image. I was also looking at the layouts on a lot of the wood panels that where painted and displayed in churches, incorporating these at a later point into the project, maybe with the layout of the publication could work nicely.